Gangs, car hoons and graffiti vandals have been targeted in a police crackdown on juvenile crime in Sydney's west. Police conducted Operation Lorn on ...

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Waterman Avenue is arguably one of San Bernardino’s busiest and highest revenue generating corridors. Take a stroll along the north south route and something is amiss. “Its frustrating. It’s one of the most complained about crime issues in the city,” says Cheryl Brown, co-publisher of the Black Voice News of the almost daily defacing, tagging and graffiti of the company’s 16th and Waterman production office. “The city despite its best efforts can’t keep up with the problem. They come out remove it one day, the next day the taggers are back - its worst. It’s time consuming and very, very frustrating,” admits Brown. Brown a former urban planner, concedes the presence of graffiti discourages citizens from shopping or living in affected areas.

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The men, part of a gang known as AMF, allegedly caused more than $140,000 damage to trains and railways stations, according to a report in the Herald ...

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THE New South Wales Government has launched a campaign to combat graffiti, saying it costs around $100 million a year to clean it up. Acting Police...

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GRAFFITI vandals are graduating to violent street crimes and armed robberies in their search for thrills. Transit safety police have charged 13 memb...

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VIEWS from bus windows could be blocked by prison van-like grilles to stop a new form of vandalism dubbed "scratchiti". The latest scourge facing Sta...

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THE hardline magistrate who jailed a first-time offender has stepped up his campaign against Sydney's graffiti "epidemic", imprisoning a serial tagger...

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A teenage girl has been refused bail after allegedly vandalising a Sydney war memorial days before Anzac Day services. The cenotaph behind a returned...

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PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, May 05, 2009    Anti- Graffiti Organization Welcomes New Laws.   After February the 9th a person caught c...

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POLICE and Railcorp Transit officers have raided two homes in Western Sydney and arrested three alleged members of a teenage graffiti gang. The gang is accused of a spree of malicious damage which was videoed and posted on the internet. Around 6.15 last night, officers from the Rail Vandalism Task Force simultaneously executed search warrants in Tanbark Circuit, Werrington Downs and Lindley Square, Bidwell after recieving information from community organisations and locals against graffiti.

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Stringent penalties in the Crimes Act 1900 and in the Summary Offences Act 1988 have also been introduced to deal with graffiti crime. Under section 1...

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