what's gang graffiti and what's tagger graffiti. either way it's going to be dangerous. there is a lot of violence in the taggers. they get into fist fights. i've arrested tagers with knives and brass knuckles. i've heard stories of guns being taken off tagers. it is a violent culture or has aspects of violent culture in it. you need to educate people on that. when you're going -- when you're painting over someone's graffiti, that could be seen as the ultimate disrespect. and you could be exposing yourself to a lot of danger. that's one of the reasons why we have officers going out with juveniles. now, the good thing about doing paint overs is it's not a signature. that's a blanket of paint covering graffiti. so, thor just going to know that i directed them to do that. and they can, they can address me if they have any problems with the fact that i told somebody to paint over them. you know, i'm not putting a tag there. it's city property. and as far as the type of paint we use, we don't use aerosol paint. we don't use solvents or thinners or anything like that. so, i'm

graffiti is just -- graffiti -- those guys aren't that bad. we're seeing a lot of -- in the state of -- in the city of phoenix, not the state of arizona, but the city of phoenix, we don't recognize tagging crews yet as gangses. they don't filth our criteria for dealing that. but if you look at it, they do. i can prove to you that it's the same stuff as when when you document a gang memorandum ben bernanketioner they're doing the same stuff. a lot these guys get jumped into a tagging crew. three ways to get into a tagging crew i know from speaking and interviewing all these guys. you either get jumped in, you get bombed in, which means they go around the city and bomb, or if you're a girl, you get sexed in. who does that, too? gangs. they do the same stuff. and we have a big syndicate that just went out. we just finished it up with a tagging crew. beer runs and cigarette runs from convenience stores and we have [speaker not understood] in phoenix. seems like every corner there's a 7-eleven. we call them circle k. they're doing that. it was all

graffiti tracker, you take the pictures gps enabled. it sends it back to graffiti tracker. graffiti tracker puts it in a database for us. i have it on my phone. they give us these phones that have all of our apps on it for graffiti. graffiti tracker here on my phone. a sewer, like we were looking at earlier, say sewer painted. they take the gps enabled camera. they take a picture, that gets sent in here. i have a ton of things you can do on this thing where you can find out sewer hit at 37th street indian school road 52 times. and just like you were showing in the presentation how different areas are with the little graphs, they put the whole graph for you. it's all done for you so you don't have to do it. go ahead. >> so, they identify the tager so they can make sure [inaudible]? >> yeah, we don't. >> you can search it like i want sewer, put search sewer [speaker not understood]? >> i'll show you right after this. it's exactly right. they have people who are trained to read graffiti. how many people can read all this crap that you see? it's taken me a couple years to final

where we are at zero graffiti. i spent a lot of time as a neighborhood activist. like many of you, i spent many hours in neighborhood cleanups, using different chemicals to deal with graffiti; as a small business owner person i heard from hundreds of merchants. as a prosecutor i'm glad i don't recognized any of you. i recognize how difficult it is for the police and judges to prioritize. graffiti needs to be treated seriously. i want to thank those of you who were part of the 2009 program. we have an amazing rewards program; a graffiti advisory board to help us innovate. we feel that the best ideas are in the heads and the brainchilds of people around the world. how many are from california? how many from the east coast? welcome. i hope it's a -- in the west coast. how many are from the midwest and the south? thank you for coming. how many from canada? welcome to all of you. anyone from across the pond, europe? sir i welcome you to san francisco. i want to thank all of the city staff here lead by -- the department

graffiti. you don't have to use arrow zoll. it's expensive. it's anywhere from 8 to $14 a can wherever you get it. and you also have to then worry about protecting the eyes, the hands and the proper respirator which could be 35 to $50 apiece per youth. so, to me it's a really expensive way to engage that graffiti side of the artistic or creative behavior. at the same time, montana wants their name out there. so, if you can't montana and say i'm getting 15 kids together to do graffiti art, can you give me some stuff? i need like a basic color palate. i don't see why they wouldn't give it to you whether your message is condoning graffiti or permitting it or not, you don't have to tell montana. so, if it is something you want to work with, i think you could get -- i think you could actually be quite successful getting quite a bit of paint and supplies. sea >> [speaker not understood]. >> certainly. certainly, and i feel the same way about cigarettes. >> thank you. all right. gen, do you have anoth

>> great questions. >> well, i'm the graffiti guy, graffiti abatement guy. [laughter] (applause) >> as far as the guys i use on my paint overs, i have a group of 3 to 4 guys and i pick them -- they're hand picked by me. i tend to pick guys who are patient, good with kids, guys who are school resource officers. that's a big plus. you know, you've got to like kids, maybe have experience in teaching, coaching, working with kids. like i said in my presentation, you don't want the guy with the rack shock and smoke mirror glasses who looks like he's working on a chain gang. you want someone who can maybe not talk to them in their own vernacular, but who can see eye to eye with them, talk to them about kid things and most of all be patient. and who can document trouble and kind of see things on the horizon that might be issues coming up and who are familiar with the san francisco landscape. you know, i don't let just any cop come and do the overtime. very, very picky about who i get. and i get guys who are dependable and who are most of all good with kids. >> larry

so, it's not just graffiti. i keep telling the officers on the street, it is not just grab eat aloe. it leads to something else. we talk about the addictive behavior of graffiti. it really is addictive. everybody that i've interviewed so far, we're going to talk about some of those at the end, always tell me that they're addict today it, they can't stop. so, it is an addictive behavior. it is not about the actual graffiti that they're putting up. okay. it's that addiction to do it. so, what's next? after you do graffiti, why not burglarize a house? get another adrenaline rush, [speaker not understood]. some of the things we're going to talk about. if you have any questions again and you want to e-mail me anything that i present to you. i e-mailed a bunch of things in here to get out to you, but i guess they didn't get them printed out. i have a thing for facebook on how to obtain a search warrant or a subpoena from facebook. if you don't have that, yeah, that, there are some that don't have it. if you don't have

so, it's not just graffiti. b feet i'm telling you, please don't believe that. * what else did i want to tell you guys? there's something. just be careful with some of these guys, especially when you deal with them out on the street. there's a couple incidences where we caught people in the act, arrest them, get their hands behind them, sure as crap they have a gun right there. so, either they have guns or they have pellet guns that look like guns. same thing as i'm going home to the family. they pull that on you. you know what you need to do. it's a getting worse. and we're doing a study -- you might be interested in talking to you about it. they're doing all the crimes that are linked to these guys that are taggers to the crimes that they're doing beside. i'm sure you're doing a lot with us. i love the stuff you're doing. i applaud you for that. just remember that it's not just graffiti. anybody have any questions? this is one of my favorites. i saw a female doing graffiti in phoenix on the street and she was

out here to fight graffiti, why do we want to go to a graffiti site. a lot of these guys when they have dedicated graffiti sites like art (inaudible) you can read all kinds of articles written by taggers for taggers trying to train other people to be better vandals. so don't ignore the fact there's stuff out there for the graffiti vandal because that can be of huge use to you. meetings, we hold a monthly task force meeting and our task force meeting pretty much covers everything from santa barbara down to san diego is our main group we have a task force meeting with. we share ideas, it's evolved over the years, become more formal. now each time we have a meeting we try to do some new training or talk about the technology available, i will talk about the technology in my class this afternoon. it's really good because we document it because when you go to court, you can show training on a monthly basis. conferences, i can't tell you how excited i am these are happening. only in the last two or three years have these major conferences come about. the one

doing graffiti. >> the city is art, other people who have their names tag -- >> [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice of violation to private property. all the utility boxes in public right-of-way we abate. >> we abate calls that come within 48 hours. >> we are a small group in g f graffiti. we don't have enough help. >> i have a group i town down and china town and the north tunnel. ady for le] the >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. >> using your safety glasses the gloves. >> you

how do you go about securing funding for the various graffiti programs? do you use grants, tax assessments, et cetera? anybody? >> i think i can take that. >> okay, ready. >> for anyone who didn't attend my session, i do a juvenile program where i take kids who have been convicted of graffiti crimes to do community service on saturdays. the way i do this is get a public grant from department of public works where we take kids out to graffiti hot spots, we paint over graffiti and they get a reduced fine and credit for probation officers. this is done through a public grant. it's a very effective program. we have been able to turn a lot of kids around, restore justice. we get a lot of positive feedback from the community, a lot of other officers are happy to get the overtime. and as an officer, you're really able to facilitate the program well because you are able to put on a lot of different hats, communicate with probation, you communicate with traffic court judges, with community referral center, and with station personnel. so, you really act as a good c

so, i'm up here to present the graffiti-watch volunteer award and the graffiti watch program is a program that started about four years ago. over 300 people enrolled in the program, and about 180 of very,

san francisco be graffiti-free.80 there are very, very few that get up early in the morning, early -- i mean, 3:00, 4 o'clock to go and make sure the neighborhood is clean before everybody wakes up to see a nice clean street or nice clean wall. and the awardee tonight and the winner is larry win ham, if he would come up and receive his award. a big thank you to him. [cheering and applauding] ♪ >> congratulations, larry. * >> well, i don't know about 3:00 or 4 o'clock, but -- [laughter] >> that's a little too early. just like to keep our neighborhood clean and just somebody once said the difference between art and graffiti is permission. [laughter] (applause) >> congratulations. ♪ >> our next award will be the most empowering city employee award. and i'd like to invite the city administrator for the city and county of san francisco naomi kelly to introduce this award. (applause) >> good evening, everyone. thank you for coming out this evening. it is my honor to just thank all of you and all of the award winners for a

city officials look a hard look at the effective rns of a taxpayer funded graffiti crockdown. they hired a contractor to take over a program back in 2011 in a move to save money. an audit of that program reveals graffiti is being removed in 48 hours in zones where the efforts are concentrated. they found response times are good when the public used a city sponsored smart phone app to report the graffiti. one council member says it's not serving the entire city and it's costing more than anticipated. >> out of the approximately 180 square miles of san jose, only eight square miles are assigned to be covered by the contracted company. the other disturbing part, although the app has worked well, the phone hotline is being responded to in a manner that's putting a lot of the work on city staff. >> more people are just calling in all this graffiti. so they're painting out an incredible amount more, which satisfies residents. >> this contract ends in 2016. >>> facebook, twitter, and instagram, three words that mean millions of dollars fwhr plastic surgeons. a lucrative by-product of

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graffiti is usually removed within 48 hours and response times have been good went public reported graffitiphone app. but some council members say the program is actually costing more than they expected and like to see the city hire more than one contractor so prices stay competitive. >>> menlo park has mutt off a decision on whether to increase the number of red light cameras in that city the council was supposed to vote on a plan to add a fifth camera to city streets last night. after hours of debate, the decision was put off until next tuesday. the past five months, other bay area cities, including redwood city belmont and hayward have opted out of their red line camera contract, saying they did not vastly improve safety. >>> in the south basht undead take to the streets again today for the zombie o'rama, it includes face painting, kids walk and the famous zombie crawl through downtown. the event is also a food drive for the second harvest food bank. >>> i just want to start with the temperature difference between the last 24 hours and now and what you will notice here is oakland's runni

stickers, i report graffiti and i pick up litter. i also call on drug sellers and vagrants sleeping on the sidewalk. i'm very happy to hear that jack spade wants to open up a store on 16th street. we do need good stores, we need good people, the area has deteriorated and that's why i'm here, for jack spade, i took pictures yesterday of 16th street, how it looks, it's very bad, and i would like you to see the pictures, what we are dealing with. >> we could put them on the overhead if you would like us to see it. >> several neighbors and us, we are scraping off the graffiti stickers and removing them, i've been doing this for 11 years, we need good people in the neighborhood and we need a good store, so please consider this business. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, members of the board, thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to speak to you about this issue this evening, my name is andy blue and i have lived a block and a half for approximately the next 10 years, i speak this evening who care

it is by far the biggest graffiti convention, where anyone can go. legalis the largest outdoor arts festival in the world. every major tour operator brings them here. the honor of the building once to cash in and he wants to put up two towers and destroy the building. >> that have always been our buildings. over 20 years, the artists have been here working on the walls without any trouble. they always had the freedom to do what they wanted to do. now we want to do what we want to do with our property, and that is to build two rental towers and grow with the growing neighborhood. >> we have been part of the fabric of long island for over 40 years. we understand the rhythm of the community and what they have to say. the community is changing. i don't think they understand that this is our property and we would like to do what we think is right for the neighborhood and for ourselves. >> the developer is talking about building 1000 apartments on that side. in new york city, real estate economy, that is potentially going to call something on the order of

graffiti markers. we have an officer pete. i want to address to the commending staff he's really knowledgeable and wonderful we know because his love was a motorcycle. i suggest you upgrade the procession of cafe officer. i'll bet he will be coming back. anyway, you know, we have this high tech things and they're using it and you know the storeowners having hard time getting over it. i suggest currently to fine them $200 to whoever turned them in and after conviction i suggest we want money is $2,000. and somebody, you know, everybody has a cell phone see somebody painting a picture doing the miss deeds keep on taking the pictures and call 9-1-1 and report to the police and turn the picture over to the police department and the police department know how to trace it down and 2 thousand people going to take the pictures and we going to solve the graffiti problems. at this point responsibility is to the building owners. lots of association and chinatown people and store owners they paint over some of them spend hundreds and thou

graffiti... we'll take photos of the graffiti. you run a shelter here., the sisters rescue girls from prostitution. sister olivia started the program. she's the one who found dorothy. we'll need to speak with her. she's downstairs calming her girls. i'll get her. so, the offender probably hid in here. burst out, caught the nun. shoved her into that. you'll see that the wax is not red, so the blood never mixed with it. the candle stand must have been knocked over after she went down once the blood congealed. [sister olivia clears throat] hi. i'm sister olivia. how can i help? how are your girls? they're freaked. me too. sister dorothy was my light. when i found her, she was already gone. i said a prayer. (goren) we're very sorry. so these rescues, how do they work? we look for men gathered around a van. there's usually one or two girls inside, servicing 20 or 30 men a night. there's no time to call the police, so we buy the girls from their pimps with donations. well, that's very dangerous work. so when was the last rescue? wednesday night. you don't thin

it is by far the biggest graffiti convention, where anyone can go. legalis the largest outdoor arts festival in the world. every major tour operator brings them here. the honor of the building once to cash in and he wants to put up two towers and destroy the building. >> that have always been our buildings. over 20 years, the artists have been here working on the walls without any trouble. they always had the freedom to do what they wanted to do. now we want to do what we want to do with our property, and that is to build two rental towers and grow with the growing neighborhood. >> we have been part of the fabric of long island for over 40 years. we understand the rhythm of the community and what they have to say. the community is changing. i don't think they understand that this is our property and we would like to do what we think is right for the neighborhood and for ourselves. >> the developer is talking about building 1000 apartments on that side. in new york city, real estate economy, that is potentially going to call something on the order of

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goes, we were only notified twice from dpw that there was graffiti, if first time was two and a half years ago and that was abated almost immediately, the first time, it was 23 and a half, the second type was two and a half, there hasn't been since, we have a relationship with two homeless people who do live there and martin and ray, martin has a cell phone and whenever somebody tag it is build, they call our maintenance guy rob who goes and mains over the graffiti, he hasn't been painting with thick enough paint, and people think it's been tagged. >> so, is your lease, you're responsible for the maintenance of the building and the parking lot or the land lard is? >> it's our responsibility. >> it's your responsibility. >> yes, it is. >> we installed two cameras, officer poliano and ramirez. >> it's doubtful the land lard is going to let you out of the lease for the next two years? >> it will be an interesting negotiation. >> okay, thank you. >> commissioner sugaya. >> i just wanted to point out something else, that this is pertaining to lombard street, and i think it goes along with

the graffiti patrols will be ongoing in hopes of at least slowing down a persistent problem. in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. >> if you see someone about to tag, you can call 911 and also report anonymous tips about graffiti vandals by calling 311. >>> now on to the massive wildfire burning near yosemite. the feds are going to pick up 75% of the cost of fighting the "rim" fire. governor brown could ask for more. 3600 firefighters are making slow progress getting a handle on it. 150,000 acres are now scorched and the fire is only 15% contained. and a big concern for the bay area, the fire's creeping up on the hetch hetchy reservoir and could get there soon. >> probably a couple of days with the weather we got and the way it's moving, i'd say two or three days. >> firefighters say it could be december before the fire is completely out. >> you can see how close it is to the reservoir. the burn area 235 square miles about the size of the city of chicago. it's so big you can see it from space. you can see the flames and the plume of smoke that stretches across the sierra into nev

or cleaning up their litter but these have gone to deaf ears, with the graffiti finally painted over and the litter removed from the parking lot, we tried to get information from pet food express express, the facilitator of the merchant's association who works for jim moore about what their mandatory community meeting would take place, but we never received any information to inform our member, we found out after the fact that the so called community meeting did take place about a mile away in pacific heights, maybe pet food express was confused to invite the community over to their proposed location on lombard street for their meeting. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioner, any name is nick davis son, i'm the vice-president for the marina association, it was established in 1929 and is the only merchant's association recognized by the san francisco planning, and i would like to read a letter that was addressed to supervisor farrell, thank you for your continued support of our neighborhood and your ongoing [inaudible] of the marina, by a vote by the mma general membership, we are