No stretch. The problem is not the conflation of the two extremes. It is that a neighborhood that tolerates petty crimes establishes a criminal attitude and becomes a haven for criminals. A clean neighborhood where antigraffiti laws are enforced has too much police protection for the comfort of many local hoods and they leave or moderate. Enforcement is not nearly the onerous timewaster it might seem because it only has to be done vigorously for a short time and then the problem ceases to be so rife. A graffiti ridden neighborhood is a nasty looking neighborhood. Good people don't want to live there. Criminal people think it looks like home. Lack of enforcement of graffiti laws convinces youths that scofflaw is a legitimate and profitible attitude.