Ann Arbor officials announce crackdown on graffiti to combat growing nuisance (Businesses on hook)

annarbor.com ^ | 10-24-2011 | Ryan Stanton

[terycarl]

I think it would certainly cut down on crime as a whole, as taggers generally tend to be gang-bangers, or wannabe bangers. Drop a few mid-tag, charge the family for clean up, and the situation would go away on its own

Logansport, Indiana....taggers of my son's business building were identified, convicted, and fined. The monies went to my son to pay for the necessary repainting...He got monthly payments, through the court, until the total amount was paid....the building has remained free of graffiti ever since

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Sorry A-squared.

That’s not a nuisance.

That’s violence and gangs, coming soon to your town. Those are not art.

That’s called “tagging”. It means the gangs are telling you, they’re in charge now...

Hopey changey. You voted. You got what you voted for.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Have you been to Vancouver in the last decade?

Ann Arbor is no worse and maybe a bit better.

[IYAS9YAS]

Logansport, Indiana....taggers of my son's business building were identified, convicted, and fined. The monies went to my son to pay for the necessary repainting...He got monthly payments, through the court, until the total amount was paid....the building has remained free of graffiti ever since

I'm surprised they caught anyone. Most graffiti here is done by folks who can disappear into the nether regions and high-tail it back to Mexico if it goes bad.

The only ones they usually catch are the wannabe idiots who brag about it. Otherwise, if it is real gang-bangers, the intimidation factor of reporting them is very high. They got nasty folks here in the Albuquerque metro area.

[USMCPOP]

Paintballs with Prussian Blue oil paint. They’ll be blue for a week.

[terycarl]

It does not sound like this is a new ordinance, or even an unusual one. What may be new is police attention to it. While I wouldn’t advocate an exactly Singaporean approach to the issue, I’d say anyone caught tagging must be required to clean up ten or twenty times as much including the original tagging. If they run out of buildings to clean, then start cleaning train cars.

STOP....do not make them clean train cars....I have seen many, many cars and they are actually works of art.....yes they are painted on someone elses property, but they are amazing and hurt nothing. If they're on your building....O.K. they may be damaging, but on a train car which is a blank space and shown in numerous locations, they are harmless. If I were in charge, I would put my logo in a small area at each end of the car and leave a prepared space on about 3/4 of the area for "artists"....Make the space easily eraseable, but let them have at it...Their art is amazing.