Comments on: The Writing is on the Wall http://targetcrime.ca/2009/11/10/the-writing-is-on-the-wall/ Helping Create Safe Communities & Neighbourhoods Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:27:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Greg Saville http://targetcrime.ca/2009/11/10/the-writing-is-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-2354 Greg Saville Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:34:33 +0000 http://targetcrime.ca/?p=498#comment-2354 You know Steven, it is fascinating watching these anti-graffiti efforts from the benefit of 20 years hindsight in CPTED! We all know basic 1st Gen CPTED might have some limited impact (anti-graffiti sprays, moss walls, etc). But as you say, 2nd Gen social strategies and proper management methods are the key to sustainable success. Decades of graffiti experience show us this. Witness the turnaround in Sydney, Australia I wrote about in my SafeGrowth blog last month (http://safe-growth.blogspot.com/2010/01/surfing-sydneys-graffiti.html) How appropriate the conference was in Victoria, a place with the worst graffiti among any city in Canada I've seen - including Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver (which have some pretty horrid graffiti areas). Whatever is happening in Victoria to combat graffiti clearly is not working! I hope the experts you saw at this conference talked about the successful programs in Sydney, and instead did not rehash old, tired, and ineffective territorial reinforcement and natural surveillance ideas. I hope they talked about successes such as the story we reported in the last issue of the August 2009 issue of the ICA newsletter "CPTED Perspective" titled "Britain's New Robin Hood" and the 2009 Can's festival by graffiti artists http://www.cpted.net/PDF/newsletters/aug09.pdf The last thing we need is to forget our history and reinvent tired old prevention wheels that are by now worn out and flat! You know Steven, it is fascinating watching these anti-graffiti efforts from the benefit of 20 years hindsight in CPTED! We all know basic 1st Gen CPTED might have some limited impact (anti-graffiti sprays, moss walls, etc). But as you say, 2nd Gen social strategies and proper management methods are the key to sustainable success.

Decades of graffiti experience show us this. Witness the turnaround in Sydney, Australia I wrote about in my SafeGrowth blog last month

(http://safe-growth.blogspot.com/2010/01/surfing-sydneys-graffiti.html)

How appropriate the conference was in Victoria, a place with the worst graffiti among any city in Canada I’ve seen – including Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver (which have some pretty horrid graffiti areas). Whatever is happening in Victoria to combat graffiti clearly is not working!

I hope the experts you saw at this conference talked about the successful programs in Sydney, and instead did not rehash old, tired, and ineffective territorial reinforcement and natural surveillance ideas. I hope they talked about successes such as the story we reported in the last issue of the August 2009 issue of the ICA newsletter “CPTED Perspective” titled “Britain’s New Robin Hood” and the 2009 Can’s festival by graffiti artists

http://www.cpted.net/PDF/newsletters/aug09.pdf

The last thing we need is to forget our history and reinvent tired old prevention wheels that are by now worn out and flat!

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