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Wichita Falls punishing victims of graffiti crime

Wichita Falls is the latest city to a href="http://texomashomepage.com/content/fulltext/?cid=27241"declare a "zero tolerance" policy for graffiti/a (which one imagines will work about as well as the "zero tolerance" policy regarding a href="http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2008/11/has-tdcj-learned-right-lessons-from.html"contraband on death row/a) aimed entirely at punishing the victims of graffiti crime instead of solving the problem:br /blockquoteproperty owners will first receive written notice. Then they'll have 15 days to either take care of the graffiti themselves --- or pay 50 dollars for the city to clean it up. If nothing is done, the property owner will be fined 150 dollars and the city will remove it./blockquoteThe a href="http://texomashomepage...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).