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No changes to existing laws required!
Graffiti *art* should be supported, nourished, and encouraged. Tagging is just territorial pissing, only with paint instead of urine.
Yes.
I suggest we use the property fenced off by private landowners that belongs to public parks and use it to keep hungry pit bulls and taggers in.
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Are comments on blogs a form of graffiti?
If so, Will In Seattle is Turk 182.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I064sA-5x…
On the one hand, the Mayor's cheerleaders think enforcing existing law is the solution to everything. On the other hand, the Mayor's cheerleaders think it's great that there will be no more cops hired to deal with the woeful shortage of bodies in uniform that Seattle has. Currently, there is no way you can tell the SPD to enforce any law without necessarily telling them to cut enforcement of something else. It's all zero sum at this point. And the well is about dry if you think you're going to get manna from heaven by cutting pot busts.
And McGinn is a freaking hero for making no real effort to find the money to hire the cops. According to the Mayor's irregular PR flacks here at the Slog.
The truth is McGinn has no plan for public safety and intends to do nothing. And if your view consists only of what you see from up Mike's ass, that looks pretty fucking good.
Gang graffiti's the sign of a bigger problem and should be dealt with.
Great, where's your house?
corner of ravenna and brooklyn, also green car parked nearby somewhere you're welcome to hit up too, i got some graffiti on my recycling bin right now, its pretty boring but you are welcome to cover the whole house with cool graffiti as long as you show proof of your skillz. also, feel free to call me so I can meet ya. Thanks :)
Oh wait, nobody dies from spray paint or being asked for change. I meant he should ban motorcycles and throw their owners in jail for 5 years like the SPD does to poor black people with a crack rock.
The SPD doesn't solve burglaries, car thefts, or other crimes where nobody is bleeding. They don't deal with graffiti, or bike thefts, or any of that stuff.
So if you like being ripped off and knowing they won't catch the guy that did it, McGinn's your guy.
(There is copious data on this, over at the FBI.)
Bleah. That stretch of road could do with some color.
Burgess hasn't actually proposed anything yet. He's just providing options to answer a poll question.
Settle down.
In 1993 there were 76 murders in Seattle. In 2009 there were 22. We live in a really safe city. The fact that it isn't as safe as other American cities doesn't make it not a safe city -- it means that most American cities are safe, and Seattle is about average.
Compare Seattle to Mexico City. Compare it to Mumbai or Sao Paulo or Jakarta. We do alright. And we're much much safer than most American cities were in the relatively recent past.
@21: Not about the graffiti, no, but we've seen his panhandling bill, and there's a pretty clear pattern. He wants to set himself up as the law-and-order mayoral candidate in 2013, and he's willing to rouse populist anger by outlawing the easiest and most obvious scapegoats he can find. Even if it doesn't prevent anyone's bike from getting stolen, or stop a single mugging. Useless.
That said, taggers are despicable evil trolls.
No law is going to stop a drive by tagger that takes 20 seconds and barely breaks stride.
But seriously -- fucking graffiti? Doesn't Burgess have anything better to do with his time and our civic money than do a graffiti survey? Hey, I know. How about figuring out how to close the budget hole or prevent the city from being on the hook for cost overruns on the tunnel? Do your job, Burgess, or you're out come next election cycle, when we recycle you back to the private field.
Make it happen!
THat's because it has so few black people here in Whitopia. Sorry, but it's a fact. 8% of population and dropping. You can hear the gunfire from Kent.
You haven't been to NYC in 25 years have you.
Post your address or STFU.
If you support laws making selling spray paint to minors and consider yourself a liberal you might have some cognitive dissonance.
Tagging a tree is not cool
ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED???
Seattle is nowhere near as huge as any of those cities are. PLUS SEATTLE IS ABOUT 70 PERCENT WHITE.
"We do alright. And we're much much safer than most American cities were in the relatively recent past."
well to which American cities do you refer? Baltimore? New Orleans? Gary, Indiana? Flint, MI? Atlanta? Detroit? See that part about the seventy percent above.
Just sayin'.
Not that I'm supportive of tagging on private property. It ought to be legal to paintball the shit out of anyone you see tagging stuff. If you're going to tag you should at least have to do it stealthily.
LOLZZZZZZ...because you'd be the first one out there? Oh hippies!
I can also summarize the city's response: Penalties must be harsher. Heads must roll. This proves that only _____ can be an effective new mayor.
lastly, will someone please cover up those awful "HENRY" murals that i see polluting so many walls north of the ship canal. those things are beyond UGLY!
We like our murals.
Also, spray paint in the nostrils for any tagger caught in the act. Half a can at least.