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Graffiti grandstanding about reelecting pols, not solving problems for property owners

Pols in Corpus Christi have been grandstanding over graffiti for years, insisting on ever-longer sentences for graff in court and for harsher sentences at the legislature. Yet seemingly everyone from Corpus you'll ever hear discussing the matter insists the problem continues unabated, as typified by this report from KRIS-TV ("Cracking down on graffiti," June 2):Corpus Christi Police Department is gearing up for the summer and, unfortunately, more graffiti. Members of the Corpus Christi Police Department's Graffiti Task Force say they're seeing more and more graffiti on traffic signs and abandoned buildings. They plan on cracking down on offenders and the city will clean up the mess as soon as possible. The Police Department, this summer, is also getting tougher on home and business owners who don't clean up graffiti...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).