Photo by tomsaint11 via Flickr
On October 1st, the city's Office of Community Beautification quietly launched an improved website tool they should have been much louder and much more proud about. The Anti-Graffiti Request System is an easy and quick way to report graffiti in your neighborhood so abatement teams can come out and clean it up. It comes complete with an e-mail confirmation once your report is submitted and once the graffiti is abated, which is often the next day.
In fact, in our experience, the new reporting system is faster than calling 3-1-1. So give it a try and clean up your neighborhood. It never hurts to have a little (or a lot of) civic pride, does it?
Also: The City Clerk's Office launched a nifty and extremely useful tool to follow City Council actions back in August. Read Being Nerdy About Los Angeles: Now Much Easier for more information.
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So you don't recommend buying my own can of spray paint and writing "SUCKS ASS" under it?
Anyone know if there's a similar way to report people going around sticking those advertisements for their services on street poles and trees?
This guy was doing it all up and down Sycamore Avenue yesterday.
The guy posting his crap all over the street
Hey JohnAustin,
Yes, the sign you linked to is illegal (it's a $195 fine!) and I can write a post for you about that soon.
L.A. is graffiti, it will always be here. Didn't your mom teach you NOT to be a snitch?
I love how the guy in the link is posting ads for a moving company, using a different company's van - specifically a company that helps people get to the hospital for things like dialysis. I wonder if he had a patient in the back. The Charlie Chaplin-esque music on their site is unreal.
http://www.gmdtrans.com/
snitch = bitch
Anewera and Field - just so I have it straight...
Lets say either of you own a home or business and you spend a couple of thousand dollars having the outside painted to look nice.
So the next day I'm sitting across the street and I see some taggers go by and spray all over your property with their scrawls.
Are you telling me you want me to sit back and smile smugly and do nothing? Not to report it and not to "snitch" on the thugs who ruined your property?
That just doesn't make any sense to me. Am I missing something obvious here?
john,
Spoken like a true snitch... well played sir, well played. what are you doing outside anyways?
Anewara
I take it by your "excellent" reply that you were not able to answer my question. I wish you good luck in your adventures towards adulthood.
Stone Cold John Austin,
I take it by your overuse of quotes that you are not familiar with the art of making sarcasm subtle. and you are very closed minded for thinking of graffiti as scrawling. you are also very naive for disclosing where you live (eg. 90038, sycamore ave.) because graffiti artist and enthusiasts enjoy being belittled by you. if graffiti bothers you that much then move out of l.a. OR stop complaining and stop snitching.
Dunn Dunnnnn DUNNNNNNN
lol - I like the new name Anewara - thank you :-)
I don't live on Sycamore Avenue but I do live in 90038 which is several blocks east. The street is covered in graffiti - gang scrawls - not art.
Every apartment and house has been tagged with childish scribbles and the place looks like a ghetto.
On a snitch related note. My sister was shot and badly injured in a drive by about 10 years ago...nobody saw anything. Especially not the guy the police questioned who was seen sitting on his front porch smoking a cigar when the whole thing happened. I asked him why he wouldn't give a statement and he told me " I ain't no rat". Six months later this same guys mother was robbed on the way home from the store and had her face slashed - she needed over 60 stitches.
This same guy was all over the street knocking on doors and crying, begging for people to call the police and tell who did this to his poor mama. He even went around sticking up signs asking for witnesses. I guess "snitching" is okay for some people when it suits their situation. Case closed for me. Post away - I'm done with this.
The last art form that belongs to the people...
STOP SNITCHIN
If you are a tagger reading this post - I challenge you to be a bit more creative...
Start tagging some meaningful shit instead of just your initials. People may think twice before erasing it and hating on you. Here are some suggestions but feel free to expand:
Instead of just tagging "ZB" (Zach Behrens)
You can tag:
"Barack Obama loves ZB graffiti"
"ZB aint no snitch"
"ZB is watching you right now"
"ZB is just going to re-graffiti this wall after you repaint it dude, stop wasting your time"
"I have no job, but I've got a paint can!"
Hipster Killer is a good one also
yeah, art, that green scribbly thing up there really speaks to me. it's certainly not just some asshole trying to intimidate somebody else with idiotic territorial markings. how many more people do taggers have to shoot to prove their just criminals and not the second coming of diego rivera?
if chaz bojorquez did a piece on the wall beside my apartment, i wouldn't report that.