This page has not been updated since June 1998! It is here ONLY for historical purposes. The latest, coolest links are at NoGraffiti.com! ... Doug June 2007

Subject Index to Sites on this Page

• City, Law, and Police Pages Related to Graffiti
• Education, Educational Materials and Books
• Gangs
• Graffiti Magazines and Web Pages of Graffiti Advocates
• Neighborhood Graffiti Organizations & Abatement Projects
• Miscellaneous Links

The following is primarily a gathering of URL's related to graffiti abatement, removal, and anti-graffiti neighborhood activities. There are pointers to information related to vandalism, crime prevention, and gangs as well. There are links to graffiti advocates so that my argument against this vandalism won't be one sided. Please, if you find a URL that would fit in this list please send it to me: doug@dougweb.com

City, Law, and Police Pages Related to Graffiti

• OZNOGRAFFITI!: Stop Graffiti in Australia
  An initiative to create a NATIONAL GRAFFITI ABATEMENT NETWORK in AUSTRALIA.
• Surrey Crime Prevention Society
  Vancouver, B.C., Canada
• Pacific Grove, California anti-graffiti program.
• Identification of Gang Influence
  Concord, California Police Department
• Prince William County Graffiti Busters
• City of Seattle, Washington
• New York City Graffiti Ordinance
• New York City Park & Rec.
• ANTI-GRAFFITI PHONE DIRECTORY
  Graffiti Abatement numbers to call for Santa Clara County (including Lawyers Against Graffiti!)
• New Westminster, Canada Graffiti Eradication Program
  "The Writing is on the Wall and it has to Go! Let's Take Back Our Community!"
• Prince William County, Virginia Graffiti Busters
• Graffiti Busters! Public Works Department - Municipality of Anchorage
  An Alaskan town's response to graffiti abatement! Good job Anchorage!
• Scottsdale, Arizona Police Department Gang and Youth Intervention
  One awesome presentation for Scottsdale residents and the rest of the world on gangs, and graffiti. Good job SPD!
• City of San Francisco, California Public Works
  A top notch organization in with an abatement mission to keep our jeweled city vandalism free!
• YAROSLAVSKY ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ANTI-GRAFFITI PAINTING KITS
  Anti-graffiti kits now available in Los Angeles County.
• Cerritos Volunteers Against Graffiti
  City of Cerritos, Orange County, California
• City of Grover Beach
  City of Grover Beach, CA
• University of Cincinnati Police
• Providence, RI
  Providence, Rhode Island Crime & Graffiti Information
• Phoenix, Arizona Police Reward Program
  An example of a "reward" program with an emphasis on capturing vandals.
  
• National Graffiti Information Network
  National Graffiti Information Network. This page is an advertisement for a company that specializes in helping local governments and organizations develop strategies against vandalism.
• Juvenile Night Time Loitering Ordinance
  Pueblo County responds to a community problem. Pueblo has put jail inmates to work removing graffiti.
• Oxnard Police Department
  Here is what the Oxnard, California Police Department is doing about graffiti in their town!
• Roseville Police (California)
  Roseville deals with graffiti!
• Anaheim Police (California)
  Anaheim deals with graffiti!
• Austin's Anti-Graffiti Program
  Austin, Texas has a program!
• Reporting Graffiti in Vacaville, California
  How to report graffiti if you live in Vacaville.
• City of Pacifica, CA Graffiti Policy
  Pacifica is tough on hate graffiti!
• Graffiti Reporting Form for Sacramento, California
  Sacramento Police provide this on-line form for reporting graffiti. Notice the radio buttons for types of graffiti. Excellent job Sacramento!
• Graffiti Removal in Chicago, Illinois
  Chicago's Graffiti Policy and a success story from the Streets and Sanitation Department. Chicago sponsors an Adopt A Street Program that encourages neighborhoods to pick up litter and clean graffiti. Once each year Chicago sponsors the "Clean and Green"
  A program where neighborhoods and businesses sweep the city of litter and graffiti.
• Los Gatos Police On-Line Graffiti Report Form
  This is a cool idea! One neat way to report graffiti via the Internet in Los Gatos, California. The city has one of the nicest local government sites for a small town I think I've seen.
• City of Berkeley Clean City Program
  What the City Of Berkeley, California is doing about graffiti blight.
• Palo Alto, California's Anti-Graffiti Program
  Graffiti-busting program a success. City's 18-month trial program probably will become permanent.
• City of Bakersfield, CA Anti-Graffiti Program
• Yuba City, CA
  Yuba City, Ca. Crime Prevention Bureau and the City's Graffiti Policy
• Assembly Bill as introduced AB1445 takes away the driving privilege. Here is the amended bill.
  This is a great idea that passed the Assembly and Senate last year. It wasn't real sensational so you probably didn't hear about in the news. (Note these links were lost. I will leave the bill info here in case you want to research it.
• Senate Bill 778 (1995)
  This was vetoed by Governor Wilson in October 1995. Fines would have gone to abatement and to anti-graffiti education. The governor was worried graffiti would not be cleaned if the money went more than one place. I have news for him. It isn't being cleaned up properly under existing law.
• Assembly Bill 392 (1995)
  The presumption of law is that the property certainly isn't the graffiti vandal's!
• Senate Bill 118 (1996)
  This a juvenile offender creative punishment bill that is scheduled for hearing in January 1996. The premise is the juvenile needs to know that victims are real. If you like this alternative approach write your California State Senator.
• Assembly Bill 172: Gang Registration (1996)
  In California we register sex offenders. This bill under consideration would mandate registration of convicted gang members as well as create a new gang registration computer system at the Department of Justice. Yes!
• California Penal Codes against vandalism and graffiti
  Vandalism laws of the State of California. Notice the 594 PC sections that specifically reference graffiti!
• The California Paddling Bill AB-7 as Introducedand the Paddling Bill as Amendedand the committee analysis of the bill. (These links have expired in Sacramento.)
  This is a knee jerk reaction to the graffiti problem. The paddling accomplishes nothing but the disclosure of the juvenile's name is a step in the right direction. Parents are already required under California law to pay for the errors of their child's ways. It seems to me this was a cheap attempt to capitalize on a sad situation from a previous year. This kind of law is why we don't vote again for the same politician!
• Graffiti Keyword Search of California Codes
  Search California Codes for applicable graffiti laws.
• Legislative Information Page
  Search other states starting from this handy page.
• Do not allow vandalism in your school
  Cleveland Heights High School

Education, Books, Research

• Partnership In a Drug Free Amercia
• Center for Urban Studies, Urban Safety Program
  Wayne State University Urban Safety and Gang-Related Web Links
• Webster's Dictionary Definition of Graffito
  A rude scrawling on rocks or walls.
• "Suburban Gangs: The Affluent Rebels"
  The book on suburban gangs by Dan Korem. This book is an eye opener folks. It contradicts quite effectively much of the tripe you hear from the pro-graffiti crowd.
• "Suburban Gangs: Live Addendum to Published Book"
  More information on Dan Korem's excellent book. Dispels the myth that gangs don't do graffiti.
• Safe Homes, Safe Neighborhoods
  One of the best books on the subject of crime prevention I have ever read. Safe Neighborhoods has a terrific chapter on graffiti vandalism and abatement. This book is must reading for neighborhoods everywhere. One of the many contributors to this book was Pleasant Hill's own crime prevention crusader, Police Officer George "Chili" Chilimidos, retired.
• Safe Walks
  Planning Commissioners Journal Article Safewalks by Anne Lusk
• Getty Art History Information Program Databases: keyword search - graffiti vandalism
  Inquiry into this database yields titles of articles in journals and other publications from several databases. The query result is broken down by database. In this case the search is for "graffiti vandalism." You can go to the Getty Art History Information home page for more information. Once you locate a reference you will need to locate the particular journal at a library near you. There is quite a bibliography of graffiti vandalism related literature.
• Dearborn, Michigan Graffiti Issues

Gangs

Remember that the purveyors of "graffiti deceit think" and the re-writers of graffiti history would have you believe gangs don't do graffiti. They say graffiti is done by artists. The real truth is very few graffiti vandals are anything close to being an artists and much of what you see is gang graffiti or "crew" graffiti. Differences exist but the ultimate test is that both groups violate the law and may even be involved in violence against one another. To that end knowing what the gangs in your neighborhood are doing is probably a good idea

• Wood County Gang Task Force
  Bowling Green, Ohio
• Los Angeles Gangs
  Watch this site. It is under construction. A -real- eye opener.
• NorthEast Consultant Team On Gangs
  M & M Gang Busters Ken McKenna & Otis Mangrum
• Gangs in Schools
  ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
• Gang Information Resource Guide for Parents & Teachers
  An on-line gang information handbook.
• Scottsdale, Arizona Police Department Gang and Youth Intervention
  One awesome presentation for Scottsdale residents and the rest of the world on gangs, and graffiti. Good job SPD!
• Street Gang Graffiti
  Illinois State Police Gang Home Page Must viewing!
• The Gang Awareness Page
  Novagate Communications has gathered many excellent gang related sources on the web to build this page. It is excellent!
• California Gangs and Investigators Assn.
  
• On-Line Guide to Gang Signs and Graffiti
  The University of the Pacific's Enhancement Course Program for Teachers, Gangs and Graffiti Course
• The Tell-Tale signs of Gang Membership
  Is your child, teenager, or young adult in a street gang?
• MAG: Mothers Against Gangs
  Mom's making our communities a better place to live.
• Senior Citizens and Gang ActivityHow Seniors Can Recognize and Deal With Gang Activity in their Neighborhoods
• Gangs Cause Concern at Ronald McNair
• Life in a Vietnamese Gang
• Teacher Talk: Gangs and School Violence
• Class on Gangs Offered with help of Technology
• Gang and Drug Use Prevention
• Southfield Police has "got the facts" on gangs.

Magazines & Articles on the Net
Some Opinions of the Graffiti Advocates.

• The Infinite Voice of the Graffiti Artist
  "Graffiti isn't corporate so it gets no respect, hasn't mad e a billion dollars for a corporation yet." - KRS-One by John Turner (Deceit think at its best.)
• Tagging in Tiajuana
  Los Taggers Have Left Their Mark on Tiajuana by Sebastian Rotella (The Americas On-Line) How Southern California tagging crews have influenced Mexican vandalism.
• Aerosol Art aka Graffiti Art
  An essay excerpted from the book Street Gallery: Guide to 1,000 L.A. Murals Copyright © Robin J. Dunitz,1993 (From the UCLA murals home page.)
• How does the environment effect our schools?
  An article by Eric Klerks
• Lessons in the Prevention of Youth Violence
  Kids Count Missouri! (The Show Me State)
• Graffiti not a Hate Crime Police Say
  from an archived article at gopher site at Ohio State University. This is how expensive it can be.

• Graffiti Project in Huntington Beach, California
  This link is to the "File Room" an archive of censorship cases at the University of Illinois. The case file reads to me like the Huntington Beach experience was similar to the experience of other towns where "legal walls" were permitted for the graphically challenged. Try as the File Room might it doesn't sound like censorship to me. What it sounds like is another First Amendment smoke screen to hide the real secondary effects of community blight and the failure of a community experiment.

Neighborhood Organizations & Abatement Projects

• The Phunfactory
  Controversial but legal. A supervised legal wall program.
• Why We Watch for Gangs and Graffiti
  Fremont North Neighborhood Council
• Mad About Rising Crime
  Mad About Rising Crime, (MARC), is a grass-roots, non-profit organization, dedicated to reducing crime and violence in our communities. (Northridge, Ca. area) See information on their Graffiti abatement MARC Outs!
• Barcroft Neighborhood Graffiti Patrol
  How one neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia copes with graffiti vandalism. You can even read what the Washington Post said about this group and their reaction to the vandalism. This neighborhood takes abatement seriously! They are also coping with gang graffiti. Stop by and review these pages.
• Philadelphia Councilwoman Speaks Out Against Graffiti
  Fernandez, police, community groups put graffiti vandals on notice!
• The Social Contract Project
  The Social Contract Project of Philadelphia.
• The Philadelphia Anti Graffiti Network
  Jane Golden's Murals done by former taggers.
• Greening Project
  This interesting project reduced juvenile vandalism.
• Ogontz Ave. Art Company
  An exciting program for kids developed by Pete Doyle of Philadelphia. How an artist and his passions for art and kids are transforming neighborhoods. Story and pictures courtesy of Pete Doyle.
• Barron Park Association
  This South Palo Alto, Ca. homes association reports graffiti.
• The Graffiti Grapplers of San Antonio, Texas!
  Anson Jones Middle School fights community blight including graffiti! These kids are cool!
• City of Montreal Anti Graffiti Plan

Miscellaneous Links

• A Resource For BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS
• Understanding Bias-motivated Harassment and Violence
  How to recognize hate graffiti.
• Brown University, English 122
  "Blank space was created to be defaced."
• At Cornell: In Mann Library, the graffiti is poetic, thanks to one man
  One very cool staff member's way to deal with vandalism in a library elevator.
• UK Youth Crime
  Youth crime and graffiti is a problem in the UK too.
• You can make a difference!
  Act Against Violence Web Page
• Arresting Ideas: Tougher Law Enforcement Is Driving Down Urban Crime John J. DiIulio Jr., Policy Review, Fall 1995, Number 74
  Tougher law enforcement is driving down crime.
• The Anti-Graffiti FAQ
  The Anti Graffiti FAQ: Let me know if there is something missing! Do you have a truth about graffiti and/or abatement that should be in this FAQ?
• Racist Hate Graffiti
  ANTI-OJ GRAFFITI TARGETS BLACK RESIDENTS / BUSINESSES IN EWING, NJ
• International Downtown Association
  "The International Downtown Association seeks to be the principal advocate for North America's urban and community centers; coalescing public, business and non-profit interests into civic partnerships that affirm the diversity of these centers, and creating livable communities." ....and they have a link to the Anti-Graffiti Web! Thanks IDA!
• SPECIALIZED TO VANDALIZE
  AN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS OF MIAMI'S GRAFFITI SUBCULTURE
  (I don't see the scholarly value of this document but since it deals with graffiti vandals you can come to your own opinions. This writer is poorly schooled on the subject.

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