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'Tagging' or just hanging out -- busted either way? -- latimes.com

A great article on taggers and the blight surrounding us in Los Angeles.


L.A.'s city attorney wants to give police the ability to arrest graffiti 'taggers' simply for hanging out together, without having to catch them in the act. The proposal raises constitutional issues.

Graffiti on wall

A graffiti-marred wall in South Los Angeles. City Atty. Carmen Trutanich wants to make it a crime for documented "taggers" to associate in public. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times / August 21, 2009)

via www.latimes.com

Posted on August 24, 2009 at 08:52 AM in Current Affairs, Local, News | Permalink

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