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“No Shoot Zone” Graffiti Doesn't Seem To Be Working All That Well Yet
© SREET JUICE | BALTIMORE | JUNE 6, 2018
It is becoming increasingly clear, to judge by the minimal positive impact of the Pugh Administration's “No Shoot Zone” graffiti initiative, that, at the moment a murder occurs, the murderer rarely stops to check first whether the location is zoned for the crime.
Nevertheless, there are no plans to end the expensive campaign.
Pres Adams, 40, of 907 Harden Ct in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore said he didn't really have any strong feelings one way or the other about the campaign, but expressed surprise at the price tag of nearly 250,000 dollars per graffiti installation. “I'm not trying to sound racist or anything,” he said, “but that does seem a little high for graffiti.”
“Not that graffiti isn't an equally valid art form,” the manager of community safe space, Impact Hub, quickly added.
An effort to get a comment from Cool Shades Productions, the private company under contract to the city to provide the program's graffiti installations, were rebuffed.
Mayor Pugh was on a fact-finding trip on the Av. des Champs-Élysées in Paris and was unavailable for comment, but mayoral spokesperson Ben G. Horowitz said the mayor stands behind the campaign.
“I find it very interesting that the same people who are ridiculing this campaign are the same people who refuse to give up their own guns,” Horowitz said.
“Frankly, the double-standard carries with it the whiff of racism,” he said.
© SREET JUICE | BALTIMORE | JUNE 6, 2018
It is becoming increasingly clear, to judge by the minimal positive impact of the Pugh Administration's “No Shoot Zone” graffiti initiative, that, at the moment a murder occurs, the murderer rarely stops to check first whether the location is zoned for the crime.
Nevertheless, there are no plans to end the expensive campaign.
Pres Adams, 40, of 907 Harden Ct in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore said he didn't really have any strong feelings one way or the other about the campaign, but expressed surprise at the price tag of nearly 250,000 dollars per graffiti installation. “I'm not trying to sound racist or anything,” he said, “but that does seem a little high for graffiti.”
“Not that graffiti isn't an equally valid art form,” the manager of community safe space, Impact Hub, quickly added.
An effort to get a comment from Cool Shades Productions, the private company under contract to the city to provide the program's graffiti installations, were rebuffed.
Mayor Pugh was on a fact-finding trip on the Av. des Champs-Élysées in Paris and was unavailable for comment, but mayoral spokesperson Ben G. Horowitz said the mayor stands behind the campaign.
“I find it very interesting that the same people who are ridiculing this campaign are the same people who refuse to give up their own guns,” Horowitz said.
“Frankly, the double-standard carries with it the whiff of racism,” he said.
