It was sad to see the ashes of Notre Dame Cathedral. It was even sadder to see the graffiti all over Paris. It looks like the French have surrendered to this scourge of our times. It makes me very sad.
The New York lesson of Mayor Giuliani was that broken windows attract more broken windows. Stop allowing people to get away with little things and the big things will take care of themselves.
Paris can do this. Please don’t surrender to the barbarians.
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Simon, I had some newly painted walls on one of my buildings that was tagged (graffiti signature) regularly and thought about what NYC did with their subway cars. When tagged they quickly took them off line and repainted, tagging went down. The next time my building was tagged I had my maintenance man paint over it the next day. I haven’t been tagged since.
I guess the mind set of taggers is “if my work isn’t seen why bother”. It worked for me.