Graffitis: bad and really bad ones

Tags are not new. And they are universal. Travellers are telling me that it is especially bad in Montreal; must be because security is slacker here than in other cities. I don’t necessarily see it as a problem – I mean not all the time.

For some people, the problem is far from banal. If you have somebody tagging your door once; it is no big deal. It is for sure unpleasant but not scary. You can think that the vandals have randomly chosen your wall and that they will choose another one the day after.

The problems come when your wall is the target of repetitive assaults and that no matter what you do, they will come back. In our door to door, somebody told us that a neighbour has repainted his wall at least ten times this year. Then you start to understand that something is cooking around your house; drug dealing? Simple vandalism? Place to meet?

Most of the time it is because your place has been chosen as a sign indicating a close by place to hang out and sell weeds and other stuff. This is why houses and stores around parks, schoolyards or any other meeting places have much more then their far share . That changes your perspective on the whole idea of what we are calling «home». Are you safe; when do they come; when are they around; are they going to put the fire somewhere? Can you still send the kids at the corner store?

For bad graffiti we have a solution. Greening the walls.

But for really bad ones – those that are a sign of something else, we don’t.

A friend of mine told me that he tried to call the police to discard a bunch of young drug dealers in the passage around his place. The police would always come but an hour too late. So him and his neighbours decided to go down and tell the kids to go away. And it works. After a few visits of the neighbours the kids knew that they wouldn’t be in peace and they didn’t come back.

Now I understand that it is not anybody who can do this (my friend tells me that even a grandma could do it coz these kids just don’t want to be seen – they are flying the minute you walk toward them – but still it is not everybody that feel secure doing that kind of tricks). Plus it is not easy to see them. Most of the time you sleep when they are around.

So what do we do?

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