The majority of the grafitti is tagging.  More of a status type thing by people who want to be associated as being in a "gang".   As far as actual organised gangs involved in criminal enterprizes this is minimal. 

The sad part is the vandalism to the rock was in broad daylight. 

Hubby and I took a walk yesterday afternoon, and we saw a couple cleaning up and painting the garage door to the house on Balboa.  And then when we reached Edison/Rio, we saw that the Acacia Crossings sign had been tagged.  Nice.  And some of the bricks on the wall at Edison/Roosevelt were knocked out quite a while ago, and are still sitting on the ground.

Ooh, I like that!  I'm going to start carrying a little bottle of spray paint so I can tag the kid that is tagging.

The VP of the HOA stated on this website on March 10 that it would be taken care of.  Why is it still there?  Grafitti and tagging should be removed immediately, since what the grafitti artists and taggers want is exposure, and the longer it is there, the more exposure they get.   Take a picture of it, but then get rid of the grafitti and tagging ASAP. 

Report it to the police.  They have zero tolerance and will use cover up paint immediately to remove it.

That grafitti and tagging was reported to the MPD over a month and a half ago by the VP of the Acacia Crossings HOA.  ZERO TOLERANCE, MY FOOT!

I can tell you that we reported some and within 2 days it was covered up.  Don't know what to tell you then?????? 

I started this topic of discussion the beginning of March and I reported that taggiing on the wall to both the HOA and the MPD back then.  I also attended the HOA meeting that was held in March and this topic was discussed; the HOA had pictures of all the tags (including the one on the wall).  So they have been aware of it for over a month and a half.  The garage door was re-painted, most (not all) of the tagging in the park was cleaned up....but this one big tag on the wall facing the greenbelt is still there.  It took about 3 and a half weeks to get the garage door and park cleaned up from when it was first reported.  I tried to follow up with the HOA on the grafitti situation; no one got back to me.

This has been a hot subject.  I feel we need to have a policy with AAM where grafitti is removed by paint or sand blasting within 48 hours.  The current process while well intentioned is not meeting the level of service we need to provide the Community.  If we aggresively attack grafitti it should help curtail it and cause it to move to other areas.