Leaving graffiti alone because it’s “just going to happen again” isn’t the solution, it’s actually a disservice to your community. So, cutting out the minor crimes are believed to be related to a drop in more serious crimes. These further crimes can become much more dangerous than tagging. Have you ever noticed an old abandoned building that’s covered in graffiti and has some smashed windows? There’s a criminology theory called the Broken Window Theory that says visible signs of crime, such as anti-social behaviour and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages more crime and disorder. Leaving graffiti on a building actually attracts more vandalism. This is the exact opposite of actual truth. The main reason people don’t like dealing with graffiti, other than waking up to an unexpected expense, is that they don’t know all of their options and feel like it’s going to “come right back again”. The stores at least had the clerk to prevent minors from buying, if that’s a thing.
If a campaign is successful and nobody is allowed to sell graffiti products, then the world wide web kicks in and if you have a credit card, Paypal account, or even an online debit card, you can take a look at what the whole world has to offer for graffitiing products. Not all the time, but why chance it? The other issues with trying to ban graffiti product sales is that there’s going to be backlash from the companies selling it, which again, puts a spotlight on it and now fuels some fires for the attack. That’s a slightly thin theory, but graffiti in the news has shown to bump up the graffiti in a city that sees a news piece on it.
Maybe even plants a seed in a young mind that didn’t know what graffiti was all about and that it makes business people or parents angry. I believe that it could actually spark a rise in graffiti because it brings graffiti to the attention of people. They’re not getting shut down, but what if a city bylaw did shut them down? I don’t believe graffiti would stop. This makes sense, but every city has a shop or 2 or 5 that sells graffiti specific products.
The obvious solution to battle graffiti is to stop the sales of graffiti products to anyone.
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