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Grafitti in Mt. Hope
Grafitti is back with a vengence
A member reports that the City has only a two man crew assigned to grafitti removal and that that is not their only duty. Does that make sense to you?
Community Garden Sign
This is the sign for the Community Garden. Who would deface their own community? Who teaches these kids their values, anyone?
When you look at this expression, in one way you are looking at the expression of ignorance. Chances are the parents or relatives of the kid who did this use, and love, the Community Garden.
BTP Retaining Wall above garden
Retaining Wall
The retaining wall above the Community garden. Believe, me it looks much worse in reality than it does framed in my photograph.
Cypress Street Overpass
Grafitti is back beneath the under pass of the Cypress Street Walkway. This time it looks more ominous. I do not know how to interpret these symbols. Is it gang related? You tell me.
Overpass Sidewall
SideWall
Two shots of the sidewall of the Cypress Street Overpass. Somebody feels comfortable enough of not being caught by the police that they stand there for some time to deface our city property in this way.
A Disturbing Trend?
Last, but not least, the most disturbing grafitti I found, the grafitti on a person's home on Knowles Street. It is more disturbing because it entailed an invasion of private property and vandalism of private property, a Mt. Hope tax paying citizen's home.
Grafitti on Mt. Hope home (Private Property)
Can anyone tell us what this symbol in red means? What does the perpetrator mean by the words "Black Fam"? It looks to me like the grafittier was writing "Black Family" when he/she/it had to run away and leave the word incomplete, "Fami . .". But what's it all mean. The house is owned and occupied by a long time, caucasian Mt. Hope resident.
If it bothers you . .
If the growing incidents of grafitti defacing property in our community, including private property, disturbs you, you should contact the people whose job it is run our City and to police our streets: your Councilman Jackson, your Police Chief Col. Esserman, and your Mayor, David Cicilline.
John Twomey
Posted at October 27, 2005 04:17 PM
The grafitti on the East Side, not just in Mt Hope, has become an epidemic. There was talk in the meeting last week how there are many areas all over the East Side that have fallen victim to grafitti in recent weeks. I, for one, am going to follow up the discussion with a letter to our city officials. The situation is getting out of hand and something needs to be done.
-Jen
Posted by: Jen at October 27, 2005 08:11 PM