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Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 6, 2012,
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Graffiti vandals are escaping the full force of the law, with just two of the 141 people arrested during a police crackdown on damage to buses and trains sent behind bars. An analysis of punishments handed to adults and youths arrested during the first two phases of Operation Eraser last year shows almost 70 per cent had been previously caught by police but many emerged from court with no formal punishment. And the biggest financial penalty of the 26...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, December 14, 2011,
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Unusual rapport was demonstrated back in October when graffiti artist Saber and mural ordinance code breaker Tanner Blackman were both asked to describe outreach between street artist and city. The artist, just a few weeks after tagging the skies over City Hall with "Art is not a crime," quickly spun around and placed his hands on a wall he painted. Blackman, a city planner, pic...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, December 12, 2011,
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NEW YORK (WABC) -- An anti-graffiti campaign is under way in Brooklyn to help business owners keep their buildings clean and keep customers spending money.
Some consider the colorful spray-paint graffiti to be street art, but in the bustling business district of Bay Ridge along 3rd, 4th and 5th avenues, it is frowned upon. Dennis Monier has owned Tops Restaurant Supply for 43 years, and he also lives in Bay Ridge, so his neighborhood pride runs deep. He was dismayed on Sunday morning to see gra...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, December 8, 2011,
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Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, October 26, 2011,
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First Posted: 10/13/11 09:29 PM ET Updated: 10/14/11 12:31 AM ETFor the artist Saber, participation in the democratic process has always been complicated. He's an international graffiti legend, holding the world record for the largest graffiti piece, done along the LA river in 1997. Despite its place in the history books, the city of Los Angeles spent a whopping $837,000 to paint over it in 2009. Now Saber is approaching public art laws from a different angle, spearheading an effort to reform... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 29, 2011,
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LAS VEGAS -- Night after night, vandals grab a cheap can of spray paint and do costly damage in just seconds. Graffiti is a $30 million problem each year in southern Nevada. Las Vegas police arrested 750 taggers last year alone, and a newly-signed law is about to give Nevada the toughest graffiti rules in the country. The historic Welcome to Las Vegas sign was defaced twice in 2009. If anyone is caught vandalizing it under the new anti-graffiti law, the crime becomes a felony. Graffiti vandals w... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 29, 2011,
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 A Lismore graffiti artist who goes under the name JONES works on a new piece of art on the legal wall under the Ballina Street bridge in Lismore. Jay Cronan NEW laws that may leave graffiti artists without a licence to engage in their passion will only “add fuel to the fire”, a local artist believes. NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell this week announced tougher penalties for graffiti artists, who were costing the state $100 million a year. The anti-graffiti laws mean offenders could appear in cou...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, June 6, 2011,
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A Queens pol who has championed anti-graffiti laws wants to crack down on "fat caps," a device he says vandals put on spray-paint cans to tag wider areas in less time. Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. said he will introduce legislation this month to ban sales of fat caps to anyone under 21 and require older patrons to show ID. He previously helped pass laws that restrict the sale of spray-paint cans and broad-tipped markers. He has also sponsored a bill restricting the sale of etching acid. "Vandals...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 9, 2011,
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LOS ANGELES—Authorities are creating a database that will be used to store photographs of graffiti vandalism, enabling investigators to track hot spots where such activity is on the rise, they announced Friday.The city currently spends $10 million a year cleaning up graffiti, and last year painted over 31 million square feet of vandalized surfaces. Clean-up crews are being equipped with smart phones and told they must photograph any graffiti they are going to remove. The images, which include... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 14, 2011,
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Newly appointed Deputy Leader John Rau (right) with Premier Mike Rann. Picture: Tricia Watkinson
Source: AdelaideNow
GRAFFITI vandals face a severe crackdown including prison sentences of up to 10 years.
Attorney-General John Rau yesterday released a discussion paper
flagging major changes to anti-vandal measures. It includes making
vandalism in c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 18, 2010,
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GRAFFITI vandals can expect harsher punishment if NSW Liberals and Nationals form the state government next year. Opposition
Leader Barry O'Farrell, who was accompanied by Liberal candidate for
Riverstone Kevin Conolly during a visit to Stanhope Gardens last week,
said the Coalition would set up a single hotline to make the reporting
of graffiti incidents easier for quick removal. He said juvenile
graffiti vandals would also be forced to appear before the court for
their offences and the ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, August 11, 2010,
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ctvmontreal.ca
Graffiti is just about everywhere in Montreal, and the city wants to
do something about it.
For the fifth year in a row Montreal has launched a campaign to clean
up as much of the spray paint spilled on walls, benches, and elsewhere
as possible.
NDG Borough mayor Michael Appl... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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(06-23) 14:48 PDT Los Angeles, CA (AP) --
Prosecutors are seeking an injunction designed to thwart a graffiti
crew known for massive scrawls of its Metro Transit Assassins initials
"MTA" along a quarter-mile stretch of the concrete-lined Los Angeles
River.
The Los Angeles city attorney's civil court injunction request filed
Wednesday identifies 10 members of the MTA vandalism squad. Unlike other
anti-gang injunctions, the city attorney's office says the one
targeting MTA is the first... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, February 16, 2010,
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By DIANA KUYPER Special to The News-Sun
Village officials hope a new portable wireless camera system will
deter vandals and prevent graffiti, an ongoing problem throughout the
village according to interim Police Chief Gary Bitler. The Village Board on Monday approved purchasing a flash cam digital vandalism deterrent system at a cost of $6,800. "We
will target one area and install the real camera and three fake cameras
and nobody will know where the real camera is located," said Mayor... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 26, 2010,
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A GROUP of youths was caught breaking into the Merredin Swimming Pool recently. The
youths were spotted jumping over the pool fence by a community member
on the evening of Thursday, January 7, which set off the security
lights. The community member called the police who apprehended the group in the swimming pool. The youths caused significant graffiti damage to the pool deck and in the male and female toilets. They used industrial paint markers to leave their tag. Pool manager Neil Lavers said it ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 26, 2010,
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A WODONGA businessman who has spent $30,000 on security is frustrated
with the legal system after his shop continues to be vandalised. Paul
Oberin, from Paul’s Ski Shop, said the law was protecting youths who
had damaged his Thomas-Mitchell Drive business six times in two years. The latest incident saw tags spray-painted on his shop front on December 12. The incident was caught on security cameras and footage was passed on to police but Mr Oberin said no one had been charged. “I used to say t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 7, 2010,
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GRAFFITI vandals face up to two years in jail or a $24,000 fine under tough new penalties now in effect.
The new laws, introduced last week, will effectively double the maximum
penalties for graffiti as part of the State Government’s crackdown on
antisocial behaviour in Western Australia. Attorney General Christian Porter said graffiti increased by more than 30 per cent in WA in the past six years. “Graffiti is just one type of antisocial behaviour the people of this State are fed up wit... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 25, 2009,
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The
pilot scheme, which is the first of its kind in the UK, will see
offenders carry out the sentence in their local neighbourhood. The project was launched by Central Scotland Police in Stirling's Raploch area on Thursday. There were 5,453 instances of vandalism in the area last year. The scheme will operate with the help of the court and Stirling Council. Once
an instance of vandalism has been reported to police, Stirling Council
wardens will seek permission from affected landlords to use t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 31, 2009,
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Frank Stoltze: Trutanich told KPCC’s "Patt Morrison"
that like gang injunctions, graffiti injunctions would allow police to
arrest members of tagging crews for associating with each other in
graffiti-ridden neighborhoods.
Carmen Trutanich: These are organized groups, much
like a gang, who have an illegal purpose that could be to claim their
territory, that could be promote their name, it could be to claim
victory for a crime.
Stoltze: An American Civil Liberties Union attorney
said that ta... Continue reading ...
Posted by Who on Tuesday, July 7, 2009,
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Civic leader to monitor graffiti-related sentencing
Canatta: Residents want tougher penaltiesby DANIEL BEEKMAN
Thursday, July 2, 2009 10:24 AM EDT
Tony
Canatta is headed to court. He and other members of the Waterbury
LaSalle Community Association want the Bronx judicial bench to know:
residents of the east Bronx consider graffiti a serious offense. The
WLCA will launch a court watcher initiative soon, Canatta said. It has
been a topic of discussion for a year or t... Continue reading ...
Posted by TAG on Friday, July 3, 2009,
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CCPD Going After Parents Of Teenage Taggers
Updated: June 30, 2009 10:10 PM
CORPUS CHRISTI - The police department briefed the city council Tuesday on the city's chronic problem with graffiti vandalism. The department's purpose was to make the new council aware of legal actions that can be taken against the parents of taggers. All over the city, restaurants, schools and even churches are being tagged. However, the police department said Tuesday's announcement could put an end to the pr...
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