Is the City of Santa Ana’s anti-grafitti ordinance working? I walked from my house in the Park Santiago neighborhood this afternoon over to the Barnes and Noble bookstore on Main St., and you would not believe the amount of graffiti I saw en route!
The picture above shows some of this graffiti, over in Park Santiago, in the area that leads under Main St., to the Discovery Science Center.
It really does not seem like the new ordinance has done anything to stop our graffiti problem.
I predicted all along that it would fail. Taggers are not afraid of jail time or fines. And they do their work late at night or in the early morning when our Santa Ana Police Department is busy fighting other crimes.
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I agree with Mr. Pedroza. As a young student in Santa Ana I can tell you that this city is so boring! Seriously…really, really boring! It’s also very dirty and full of trash and graffiti. I’m embarassed to bring my friends from outside S.A. to my house because of the way it looks. There is also lots of crime and gangs. Sometimes I wonder why my parents stay here. Thank you Mr. Pedroza for shedding light on this problem.
It is so ridiculous you moan about the city being infested with low lives and yet you give the people who are trying to clean the dump up a bad name.
Three things need to happen:
A curfue after 10pm for kids needs to be mandated. If the kids are out after 10pm, the parents should be called to pick the kids up.
The cops know who the bad guys are.
The Santa Ana police force is so neutered they are useless. The gang prevention unit is more like a kid council unit. The kids are not afraid of jail time, because they are not afraid of the police. They even have their own personal police force in the schools and still managed to cause over 200,000 in damages.
Taggers leave their mark. In black star canyon (Orange) two young girls were raped and their boyfriends beaten by a bunch of Scumbags stupid enough to leave their tagger name. The police were able to identify the little scumbages as a Orange gang.
SAUSD needs to be overhauled and parents should be made liable for any distruction their kids cause.
Santa Ana is a prime example of what happens when there is welfare and bad schools in the mix. Not one Hispanic candiate will fix the root cause of Santa Ana, “Poor Parenting”.
“Not one Hispanic candiate will fix the root cause of Santa Ana, “Poor Parenting”.”
It’s easy to try and blame our parents but that’s a cop out. Don’t blame my parents! Did our parents allow the streets and sewers of Santa Ana to go unrepaired for decades? No! Did our parents vote for Prop 13 so that now we don’t have enough money to maintain or city and schools? No! Did our parents allow Developers in the 1980’s to build cheap apartments all over this city which has had the effect of turning the city into a slum? No! If you want to blame someone for the graffiti then why don’t you list the members of the City Councils during the 1980’s! You should arrest them for the state of our city and while you are at it, arrest every last person who voted for Prop 13! Maybe after all those people are in jail there will be a little elbow room for me and my friends in Santa Ana!
If you really want to do something about the graffiti, take your paint and brush and paint over the graffiti.
And take your younger kids with you, that way they will less likely become taggers when they get older.
Falcon-Class of 2011,
You are a wise young man/woman. The solution is for you and others to choose new leadership in order to correct the current Pulido mismanagement you point out purposely set by Pulido and his strategy team for political and economic manipulation.
As Mr. Pedroza predicted, the new ordinance hasn’t changed a thing, other than wasting hours of city staff time. Until Santa Ana Police Chief Walters is removed from his throne, nothing will improve when it comes to law enforcement services in Santa Ana. Have you ever heard of overstaying your welcome. That’s the case with Chief Walters.
Feel so sad for reading SA is suffering with graffiti and slow-action governors maybe? I use to know the area and yes, I agree with those people stating that SA needs more legislation and activities for youngs.
Any way…
Feel so proud of finding groups fighting against vanalism and graffiti on private property.
I write to you from Mexico and down here we also suffer damage in our property for those vandals posting weird figures and signatures all over.
I took the decision to create a very small and safe group to fight against graffiti by cleaning and re-painting surfaces damaged with griffiti.
But to do that cleaning activity in our community, we need support trough donations via paypal in order to be able to buy all those tools, paint, masks, rolls and many other stuffs for cleaning/re-painting purposes.
Please, I want to do something to keep neat and clean our neiborhoods but need some help.
My email for contact and info gupac@live.com or my short new blog at http://www.gupac.wordpress.com
Thank you so much for your time and help.