New York Adult Entertainment: Civic leader to monitor graffiti-related sentencing
Musano is satisfied with the 45th Precinct; the police nab vandal after vandal, she said. If the WLCA court watcher initiative is successful, Musano will recruit other east Bronx civic associations. Years ago, east Bronx leaders mounted a court watcher initiative to protest auto theft. It worked.
“We complain to the police,” Musano said. “We complain to the mayor. People treat graffiti as if it wasn’t a crime. It is.”
Klein has proposed legislation that would require sentenced vandals to perform graffiti removal. In fact, most sentenced vandals do so already, Benjamin Smith of Bronx Community Solutions said. Bronx Community Solutions is a four-year old non-profit project. It attempts to diminish the borough’s reliance on short-term jail sentences for non-violent offenses such as drug possession, prostitution and graffiti. Rather than sentence a graffiti vandal to a month in the slammer, a judge will let Smith put him or her to work. The Bronx Community Solutions Tag Team paints over and washes away graffiti.
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