As graffiti vandals in Portland jockey for notoriety and positioning on the sides of buildings, police are struggling to catch perpetrators and clean up the city.
As graffiti vandals in Portland jockey for notoriety and positioning on the sides of buildings, police are struggling to catch perpetrators. The Department of Transportation in Portland has allocated $4 million this year from the state legislature to help clean up graffiti, but the bill still awaits a signature from Oregon Gov. Kotek, according to local news reports. 'It’s graffiti is really when it comes down to it, kind of no laws, no rules.
' 'This is tagger-based graffiti. This is fame-based, notoriety-based graffiti. This is a bunch of humans with huge egos putting their name up so that everyone has to look at it,' officer Nate Kirby-Glatkowski told Fox 12. 'We have graffiti vandals in the city who go out five nights a week, and they do graffiti for hours on end, and then they go home and they fill up notebook books with iterations of their names thousands of times.
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