Los Angeles - LA Daily - Trutanich's Anti-Graffiti Injunction Draws Fire.
Aug 25 - The response to L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's proposal, reported in yesterday's L.A. Times, to criminalize the mere gathering of members of graffiti-tagging crews has not been pretty. Graffiti is one of those quality of life issues that people can point to when explaining why Los Angeles is firmly strapped into a hellbound handbasket. To most people of a certain age graffiti is ugly and they can remember a time when it wasn't around -- or at least, wasn't as omnipresent as it is today. But there are other, similar issues that would probably garner more attention if they were as visible as tags: homelessness, drug addiction and the unavailability of health care to large numbers of Americans.
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