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Is going up or down, it has to do with how effective you can make your programming. The graffiti Audit Program we have come up with, we looked everywhere to see if there was anybody doing any type of Statistical Analysis on graffiti vandalism in cities and we werent able to find any so the model you will see is we worked with Mark Mckinney and management and worked as a team to see how we could view how graffiti affects the city. These audits are designed to be repeatable from year to year. We have done 3 audits to date and we have been able to effectively determine how we are doing. So whats ...

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 telling 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 ad...

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...

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 ...