Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Graffiti


Sometimes graffiti can be considered an art, but not where it defaces the public or private property. Graffiti has become a very serious problem that is spreading from the largest cities to other locales. Graffiti is related with the gangs, and I considered that this is a form of vandalism that most of the time is not reported to police, but some people think that police cannot do something about it.

Graffiti is a common problem that we see every day in every street and we are in a certain moment costume to it. However, has a cumulative effect; its initial appearance in a location appears to attract more to make graffiti there and that’s how it grows.

Approximately, $12 billion a year is spent cleaning up graffiti in the United States. Graffiti can be related to other types of crimes, like shoplifting, gang violence, property destruction, among other things.

Most of the time graffiti is on a public property, but we are now seeing it in private too. For example, in transportation systems (trains, subways, buses, etc), streets, traffic signs, monuments, schools, walls, garages, etc.

The people that make graffiti are often young and male with ages 15 to 23 and most of the time students. They typically are male, but now we are watching women too. They operate in groups; perhaps 15 % to 20 % do it alone.

This social problem needs to be stopped now, because we are now seeing it in every place where we go. I don’t think that this type of graffiti looks beautiful in our streets or houses. The government should do something about it, so this problem can be stopped. Graffiti lead a lot of consequences, for example if they are often doing graffiti on your house maybe later they can enter to your house and stole things or make something worst! Also I think that it can be uncomfortable that you know that someone at night is doing graffiti on your wall and you don’t know who is it or what other things he or she can do.

Graffiti is an art, but we don’t need it on the walls, streets, and houses.

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