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Dallas' new 'graffiti czar' looking past criminal justice approaches

Dallas' new 'graffiti czar' (a moniker he's rejected which will inevitably stick) is a lawyer named John Barr who's willing to think outside the box, including defying the City in the past with overt vigilantism, illegally painting over graffiti without property owners' permission (which some argued was effectively the same thing as the graff writers were doing). After a while, though, the city council changed their tune and now they're collaborating with Mr. Barr. His volunteer slot appears to have been created to decide how to spend a $100K donation from the owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team. According to Unfair Park, though, Barr is:not sure how he'll spend Mark Cuban's $100,000. Sam [Merten] reports back that Barr's big thing is getting citizens to drive around with their own cans and buckets of paint to cover up graffiti wherever they see it (after they take pictures of the offending graffiti, of course)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 17, 2010 (boomark / email).