San Francisco was the home of the 1st Zero Graffiti International Conference in 2013. This article describes yet another prolific graffiti vandal. I HATE it when the media uses the term graffiti artist. Artists don't cost their cities millions of dollars. I'm sure any help from our Graffiti Fighter Members apprehending this individual would be appreciated.

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Hello Graffiti Fighters, 

The City of Phoenix is conducting a survey regarding graffiti abatement efforts and their impacts on your community.  They have created a series of 15 questions that address what type of programs your jurisdiction offers, implementation and the impacts on reducing the amount of graffiti tags in your area. 

You may access the survey with the link provided below. Please respond by Friday, August 15.  Your input is greatly appreciated. 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/graffitipractices 

Graffiti in the news in Louisville. The Louisville Municipal Police Department (LMPD) does not maintain a list of graffiti or tagging arrests.  This attitude towards graffiti is what sparked community advocate Josh White to form the Graffiti Abatement Coalition of Louisville. White has been meeting with community leaders and city officials to tackle graffiti, one tagger at a time. He believes there's a disconnect in Louisville when it comes to reporting graffiti. Either people are doing it wrong or the reports aren't landing in the right hands.

Good job Josh. Keep up the good fight. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away.

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Union City California Public Works Supervisor Ray Fitch and Wayne Cruz Special Projects Coordinator have been members of Stop Urban Blight since the very beginning. Wayne is in the field on a daily basis removing graffiti. Thank you gentlemen for your support and invaluable input. 

Full article HERE

This may not be new to some but I found it amazing. The video explains where to get, and how to use a free app that makes it possible for anyone to take a photo off the internet and find out where it was taken. For graffiti investigations this would be incredibly valuable, and for the average person who posts pics on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Twitter etc - critical!!! Thank you Kristina for sharing. 

Click HERE to see video

When does graffiti become art? I would have to say rarely when you consider a reported 25 Billion Dollars was spent last year dealing with the mess left by graffiti vandals. For the full article click HERE.

We received the below links from one of our Graffiti Fighter Members (George) in Coachella, CA. He thought the below articles may be of help to fellow Graffiti Fighters. Thank you George for sharing and for all the good work you and the City of Coachella are doing to eliminate graffiti vandalism. Keep up the good work. Click on Titles to view.

Parents of Graffiti Taggers face Civil Lawsuit (Video)

Parents of Taggers face Civil Lawsuit (News Article)

City of Coachella Reaching out for help (Video)

 

The City of Santa Rosa was one of our first host cities for a regional graffiti conference. You may have noticed in our Blog yesterday they apprehended a graffiti vandal and were looking for a contact in New York because the vandal had done graffiti there as well.  We gladly put them in touch with one of our Graffiti Fighter Members in New York. GOOD JOB Santa Rosa. Keep up the good work.

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Here is an e-mail we received from one of our Graffiti Fighter Members in northern California. 


" Any chance you have any law enforcement contacts in NY, specifically the Brooklyn area? We just arrested a tagger here that lived in NY for over a year and I was able to find a photo online of one of his tags in NY. I wanted to give them a heads up." 


We were of course more than happy to put them in contact with one of our Graffiti Fighter Members in New York. We currently have just under 300 members around the world. GOOD JOB Graffiti Fighters. Keep up the good work!!!!