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For anyone who didnt attend my session, i do a juvenile program where i take kids who have been convicted of graffiti crimes to do Community Service on saturdays. The way i do this is get a public grant from department of public works where we take kids out to graffiti hot spots, we paint over graffiti and they get a reduced fine and credit for probation officers. This is done through a public grant. Its a very effective program. We have been able to turn a lot of kids around, restore justice. We get a lot of positive feedback from the community, a lot of other officers are happy to get the ov...

In terms of safety i think martin can speak more to the issue of, you know, going into areas where there could be problems. Edmonton overall is pretty safe community. We havent really had any experience with people sort of being there present when were painting over it. So, i cant really speak to that in terms of issues. But the liability issue is pretty well covered. I have a guide thats available on my website that outlines all of our forms and criteria that they go through and the Property Owners are also required to sign off a form giving the volunteer Agency Permission to paint their buil...

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 the neighborhood. That is telli...

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...

I introduce jennifer nelson, we introduced her before. applause a lot of you have talked to her already. She will be working with the speakers on stage. And id like to introduce jim merkasio with the San Francisco graffiti advisory board. He will be the phil donahue. I hand you the microphone. Ill hold onto it. I believe the way were planning to do this, we have some written questions that we will be reading off and the panel will be answering them. Ill also be taking questions from the audience. So, if anybody has a question, feel free to raise your hand. Allow me to have time to get over the...