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The Band-Aid Approach

Posted by: David Gest

14 January 2006 - 7:00am

By focusing resources on seemingly minor infractions like graffiti, some cities hope to discourage more widespread criminal behavior.

"Whatever your viewpoint, graffiti is a big problem in Tucson...'This city would be a mess without our program,' says Michelle Phillips, executive director of the Graffiti Abatement Program in Tucson, in an e-mail. 'GAPIT is a seven-day-a-week operation, and without it, you would not recognize your city,' she says. GAPIT Community Program Director Beki Quintero says their job is to 'cover hate with love, repairing a hurt done to the city. We're the Band-Aid effect. Someone hurts the wall, we fix it -- often over and over again.'"

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Source: Tucson Weekly, January 12, 2006
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