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That last slide that downtown is decreasing, it still is one of our most significant neighborhoods as far as graffiti. Queen mary park. Those 5 neighborhoods within the exception of one, have remained fairly consistent from the beginning of the program. Although the percentage of how much graffiti they have has gone down. What were finding, too, is that while the reduction in the graffiti over all was very minimal this year, we saw huge swings in the amount of graffiti vandalism by neighborhood. So the gardineau neighborhood in 2011 had a 77 percent decrease, we saw a 200 percent increase in t...

In our graffiti index, just as i mentioned before so we are examining the observations providing a numerical observation of the number of hectares in each area. In our hot spot we are fieplding there is more graffiti in the hot spots compared to the random areas. So that tells us we can rely on the calls coming in i dont think i have any other maps so i can turn that up so were not sitting in the dark. Basically what were finding then is it is making a difference looking at the hot spots compared to the random sampling. So within a given year we should be able to look at trends coming in from ...

Me these are the priority neighborhoods through this year where i have to find out whats going on in those neighborhoods in terms of what we can be doing to address the programming needs of those communities. 7 neighborhoods accounted for 59 percent of the graffiti, this is visually showing you how most of the graffiti continues for us to be concentrated in 7 specific neighborhoods. Im going to have to turn the light off again. So this map is a sample of one of the maps that was created. So the original dots reflect where the graffiti was and the intensity of the graffiti that occurred in 2011...

That particular location. The blue dots indicate how much graffiti or what the graffiti was at each location in terms of the incidents for 2012. So you can see from here, its not i was hoping for a better visual, but in here in the hot spot neighborhood, this is one example where the hot spot neighborhood isnt as significant as the random area. The random area is showing more graffiti vandalism than the hot spot neighborhood, but the intensity is pretty clear. If were going to tackle a neighborhood we need to be looking here, we need to be looking in here. So its been very beneficial in terms ...

The argument that we keep getting that they are beautiful pieces of art just isnt holding because they are very small pieces of graffiti. Thats just the same visually. Again, most graffiti is text. 90 percent of the text, with all those categories that we have where were trying to depict what graffiti is out there, we can now go to the arts council or anybody else who wants to argue with us and say 90 percent of the observed graffiti we have in edmonton is text only. Given all those options, thats what were finding. So the other avenue thats important for us in terms of how i run my program is...