NSW Premier O'Farrell has tried but so far failed to get action on graffiti.
http://www.mydailynews.com.au/story/2011/08/26/ofarrell-mad-at-graffiti-law-changes/
I emailed him a suggestion last year
----- Original Message -----
From: stephens1510
To: barry.ofarrell@nsw.liberal.org.au
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 6:17 PM
Subject: Graffiti and how to get votes
Dear Mr O'farrell,
Graffiti is an ever increasing problem and needs a strong response to deter the morons that do it.
The Singapore way is to cane the offenders and that seems to work.
This punishment, even though it would certainly alleviate our graffiti vandalism, would never happen here.
To show that graffiti vandalism has consequences, maybe a "graffiti camp" may help.
Set up a camp out West with a high fence topped with razor wire, basic accommodation, basic facilities, basic food and where people can be sent to for graffiti offences and have to clean prepared spray painted brick walls every day of their sentence.
The staff there have authority to add extra days onto the sentence of anyone who refuses to co operate with the cleaning task.
Counselling, conferencing and community service won't work on these anti-social vandals, who have no regard for authority.
What happens now when people don't turn up for community service?
When people know that to get caught doing graffiti means a month, cleaning graffiti off a brick wall, with no TV, video games, and mates, day after day, this may get some result.
Compared to the cost of cleaning damage now, setting up and running a graffiti camp I think would be worth a go.
To show strong leadership on cracking down this problem will be appreciated by almost everyone out here.
Yours faithfully
Hans Stephens
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This entry was posted on 19 Oct 2011 at 21:27 by hstephens and is filed under Graffiti, .