Graffiti increase in our neighborhood

[Mark Lenz]

Has anyone else besides me notice the resurgence of graffiti in the lower haight?    Our building in the 600 block has been getting hit quite a lot recently.  It's costly and time consuming for us to try and stay on top of cleanup.   Is there a attention we can get from SFPD or do they just not care?  Last time I wanted to make a formal report with SFPD they told me they don't respond to those kind of complaints.  Isn't there a graffiti task force at SFPD?   Where are they and how do they spend their time?

Mark

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[Eric Metens]

yep, we got hit last week and again last night. on the 700 block.

~Eric

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[Thea Selby]

One of the best things you can do is paint over quickly. It's my experience that in general the help you get fr the city is sometimes they come through and paint over graffiti. 

Another good thing to do is have a lighted front so it's less accessible for taggers. And, we should all be looking out for each other as much as possible. We're getting tagged a lot (400 block). Sucks.

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[Thea Selby]

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[vallie Brown]

It looks like a graffiti crew went through our neighborhood and Upper Haight. I reported it to both Captains at Park and Northern Station. This is the third time in several months these crews have gone through our neighborhood. Both Captains are asking people if they saw anything suspicious?  They would like our neighborhood to report/call the police if you see anything? Unfortunately, I think they do it very early in the AM when most of us are sleeping?

Thea is correct, if you and your neighbors can paint it out the next day it will slow them down. They usually come back through the neighborhood to look at their work. One merchant on Haight heard a conversation of three men in their late 20's talking about which tags were theirs on certain buildings and the fact some of them were still wet. He decided then, he would paint out the graffiti right away just to piss the taggers off when they came back to admire their work.

As far as the City painting over the tag, not going to happen unless it's gang related. The City will post your building and the owner has 10 days to paint it. If they do not comply in 10 days (the building will be posted by the City) the City will paint it and charge you the work.

The City is responsible for any graffiti on City property, bus shelters, poles, utility boxes. Actually the City is doing such a good job in promptly removing the graffiti from City property the taggers have shifted their focus to private property.

[Mark Lenz]

We do quickly paint over the graffiti which is the one piece of joy and satisfaction knowing they can't enjoy their work from the previous night.   However, it's disheartening to have a lack of concern from the police department especially given that they dedicate an entire graffiti unit to their force.