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Letter: Fight graffiti, don’t let punks win

By Terry Kindschuh, Vancouver
Published: January 31, 2018, 6:00am

Don’t you see what is going on in your community? Graffiti — it’s everywhere, and every day more property is getting tagged. It makes me sick to drive on our roads only to see tags everywhere on Interstate 5, Interstate 205, and state Highway 14. More and more tags are generated on bridges and road signs, or wherever the punks can find a place to deface property.

What are we going do about this? We should take photos of the graffiti and send them to our council members. If they are paying attention, they will first remove the tags and then develop a system for us to send pictures in, to better track activity and the source of the tags to aid in prosecuting.

We cannot tolerate tags and defaced property; this is a leading indication that we, as a community, are giving up and the punks have won.

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