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ABC TV channel 7 in San Francisco did this video on urban art. This is a graffiti puff piece only describing graffiti as controversial. Legal art is blended with graffiti vandalism in order to show its beauty. This irresponsible waste of air time never went into the billions of dollars graffiti vandalism costs the nation annually. They didn’t visit other parts of the Bay Area where vandalism is a serious blight on communities. The anti-graffiti movement was in part born in 1995 in Pleasant Hill, CA just thirty-five miles East of San Francisco values. The anchors and even a well respected reporter drooled over the art and their interviewees. Disgusting.

When a news agency helps define vandalism down like this the entire community should be outraged. The story celebrated a picture book of vandalism photographs. The anchors acknowledged one of their interviewees did legitimate art and vandalism but to protect him would not show any of his crimes.

When you have a graffiti problem in your community you do not tolerate presentations like this on local media. I am very surprised this took place in San Francisco. When Willy Brown was mayor he took vandalism seriously. Early support for the anti-graffiti movement came directly from San Francisco Public Works and the police department. I hope things have not changed. My props go out to all of the San Francisco Bay Area anti-graffiti public groups trying to save communities from this blight and in particular the Pleasant Hill, CA Anti-Graffiti Program if it is still active.

See the video here. and then see how this pro-graffiti website uses the ABC7 video to glorify vandalism.

Graffiti by definition is illegal. The difference between graffiti and art is permission. ABC7 this was a colorful but irresponsible report. A complete waste of air time and I hope the community holds you accountable by writing the Federal Communications Commission and filing letters of complaint in your public access file.

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