Good news graffiti writers, you’re getting noticed. Complaints about graffiti are not only increasing in places like Sunset Park and Woodside, but also citywide, according to Capital New York:
[A]s of Oct. 12, graffiti complaints have increased 24 percent over the same period last year, from 6,947 to 8,635.
This is bad news for NYOD Commissioner Bill Bratton who often invokes the broken windows theory and said he would focus police resources on combatting the outlaw art because it’s a gateway to worse crimes: One minute kids are writing their names, the next they’re writing ransom notes.
Keep up the good work, graffiti writers. Bill Bratton is very bothered by your exploits along the Long Island Expressway in Queens. "I have a weekend house out in Long Island, and I go out of my mind when I go back and forth on the LIE and I see…
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Taking the "broken windows" law enforcement theory to absurd extremes, New York State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, of Queens, has voiced his desire to ban a toy called Kidffiti. The kit sold at Toys R Us includes stenciling tools. Sprayable chalk that imitates spray paint is sold separately. “Graffiti is just the first…
