Will Santa Ana Graffiti fighter Thomas Gordon get his way on Monday?
Loading ...“A proposed law drawn up by community members to combat this city’s chronic graffiti problem will get an initial hearing before the City Council on Monday,” according to the O.C. Register.
The meeting is open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. in the Police Department’s community room, 60 Civic Center Plaza.
I can understand the anger towards graffiti – but we already have laws on the books and guess what? The taggers don’t care. And the cops don’t arrest them and the city doesn’t prosecute them. Why does anyone think that a batch of new laws will make a damn bit of difference?
Instead of addressing the underlying rot in our city, the Usual Suspects advancing the new anti-graffiti ordinance want to put a band aid on the problems and pretend that will help. It won’t.
How many new parks have we opened in the last five to ten years? How many new libraries have we opened? How many new affordable housing units have we built in Santa Ana?
Poverty leads to hopelessness. Hopelessness leads to despair. Despair leads to crime. Passing more laws to punish kids who don’t have career paths and who don’t see a future worth living for won’t help.
I have said this before and it bears repeating – how about setting up free art classes in the Artists Village and inviting taggers to take these classes? How many Andy Warhols will we miss out on as they spiral downwards in lives of crime for a lack of opportunity?
Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido has tried for over twenty years to gentrify his way out of this mess. Hey Pulido – new tennis courts and a publicly financed Artists Village won’t help – not when you exclude the very people who need the most help. Pretending these problems don’t exist is not a solution!
Dispair about what?? Their is Dispair in the slums of Mexico, because the fact is you are either poor or rich, it is impossible to improve your class without an education.
Art, What leads to poverty is a lack of education. Santa Ana has a large marjority of people that does not see education as a priority and an Education system that feeds of this lack of priority. The reward is bad schools more money for the district,
The solution make education a priority in the community and hold district’s accountable for educating with strict oversight.
Make Parents accountable for their kids welfare whether it is under age pregnancy or gang envolvement.
Single mother’s is the leading cause of poverty in the USA and Santa Ana as a satistic has one the highest underage preganancy rates in the US.
Latina Girls are the leading population for underage pregnancy, because of a culture with an acceptance for children having children.
Their are alot of players in this game, that wants to keep a culture down for their own gain.
1. Catholic Church, as in Ireland the catholic church was one of the leading cause’s of proverty in Ireland. Keep the flock poor and the church rich.
I went to a public catholic school, i was never liked by the priests or the nuns, because i had the cheek to question them!
2.Governement loves the poor. The more the need, the bigger and stronger the government can grow.
3.Business. simply cheap labor.
4.The rich,non-profits. they directly benifit from tax money. Ie. Choc hospital. Kim Cripe Salary is over $1,000,000 yearly. Caloptima has been great for Choc hospital.
Parks will not educate and books can not educate unless their is a will to be educated!