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SFPD Graffiti Abatement Program
Testimonials
Bob Jones - Local Merchant
"My business has been graffiti free now for 12 months. It took me a while to understand that immediate cleanup was the key. If the tagger can't show off his graffiti, then he loses incentive to paint your wall. The SFPD Graffiti Abatement Unit caught one tagger and the others have given up."
15 year old male 06/24/01
In the past months serving time in the JAWS program I have learned lots of respect. I did not like this program because I had to come every Saturday and Sunday and wake up hella early. My weekend were filled with lots of hard work like cleaning parks and painting out graffiti which I learned is nothing but vandalism. I met a couple of good friends and good police officers. I liked Sundays more because we were doing homework and getting tutored. I also learned lots of discipline from lots of the officers. They were very hard on me sometimes. Officer Chuck taught me the tagging is just messing up someone's property or messing up something you really really love. I don't want to come back here and I have learned my lesson.
17 year old male 06/03/01
I learned in the JAWS that tagging is wrong and that you destroy other peoples property which they have worked hard to keep clean. Another reason is that it makes the areas look bad and it starts attracting negative influences. I also learned that it isn't worth the trouble of waking up every single saturday at 6:30 to come take orders from the Officers. I still think that graffiti is art, especially piecing. the word that makes Graffiti different from Art is "permission". That is the main thing I learned in this program.
16 year old male
Graffiti is bad because it destroys people's properties. When you graffiti you are doing something that is against the law. Graffiti on public property hurt the public and make them disgusted. Graffiti on houses is a waste for the owner because they will have to waste their time painting over it and it really pisses them off. They waste their money and their paint. There is no respect for personal and public property from graffiti.
Graffiti also give problems to the people who are part of the community service programs because they're the ones who have to work more by painting and cleaning over it. It has to be washed and scrubbed over and sometimes it doesn't even come off. This is something that makes the members of the community, angry.
Graffiti may lead to tagging battles. In a tagging battle two people or groups of people will tag more than usual and cross out the opposing crews name for the them to win the battle The winner will get a prize of drugs or something or sometimes the losing crew will have to break-up they're crew. Tagging battles will also lead to fights. People fight for tag names. Tagging names are important to most people who chose to graffiti.
Graffiti makes a lot people angry against us. Tagging on public and personal properties makes you an enemy of the people. They will hate you and most of the time is is unforgivable unless you clean it up and show them respect.
Graffiti is bad and it influences the young ones who look up to you. You'll make them become bad too if you do a bad thing like graffiti. Then soon one day your children will be influenced to do this act of destruction. Today many people graffiti and destroy lot of public property and soon there will more. Stop the act of graffiti or just don't start. You will not like serving time with Chuck.
16 year old male 03/25/01
This community service made me become a man and taught me how tagging is not for me. The community service taught me how I can be a man and taught me how tagging is not good. It taught me that I can do anything I want in life if I apply my self. Some people will make you loose your school and make you go to jail. If you don't have nothing to do but go and tag, go to work or do anything else.
16 year old male
This program has been an experience that I will never forget. It definitely has taught me my lesson and I will never do graffiti again. For some so stupid, the consequences are not worth the risk of getting caught.
The program has dome many things for me. I have made new friends. Both with Officers and other program participants. I have learned my lesson to not graffiti from having to wake up early every Saturday and Sunday do buff walls that were huge and covered with graffiti. Walls that took us over an hour to do at a time. Walls that were surrounded by filth and muck. We had to buff in the rain and blistering heat of the city.
However there were some positive aspects of the program as well. I did stop tagging which is good because tagging is dumb, it cost allot of money to clean.
14 year old male 04/08/01
I got arrested on Nov. 17th, 2000 and about 10 weeks later I saw a Judge who suspended my drivers license, gave me 96 hours of community services and that is how I got into the Graffiti Abatement Program, JAWS.
I learned quiet a bit about respecting other people's property and I guess I wouldn't like anyone tagging my house. Painting on Saturdays taught me what it felt like to get up early and work. I guess that it has prepared me for some of the responsibilities of having a job in the future.
I also learned a lot in the tutoring class on Sundays. I learned the consequences of tagging and the possibilities of having my driver's license suspended as well as health issues of smoking cigarettes. The tutoring helped me in my classes at school.
Bob Jones - Local Merchant
"My business has been graffiti free now for 12 months. It took me a while to understand that immediate cleanup was the key. If the tagger can't show off his graffiti, then he loses incentive to paint your wall. The SFPD Graffiti Abatement Unit caught one tagger and the others have given up."
15 year old male 06/24/01
In the past months serving time in the JAWS program I have learned lots of respect. I did not like this program because I had to come every Saturday and Sunday and wake up hella early. My weekend were filled with lots of hard work like cleaning parks and painting out graffiti which I learned is nothing but vandalism. I met a couple of good friends and good police officers. I liked Sundays more because we were doing homework and getting tutored. I also learned lots of discipline from lots of the officers. They were very hard on me sometimes. Officer Chuck taught me the tagging is just messing up someone's property or messing up something you really really love. I don't want to come back here and I have learned my lesson.
17 year old male 06/03/01
I learned in the JAWS that tagging is wrong and that you destroy other peoples property which they have worked hard to keep clean. Another reason is that it makes the areas look bad and it starts attracting negative influences. I also learned that it isn't worth the trouble of waking up every single saturday at 6:30 to come take orders from the Officers. I still think that graffiti is art, especially piecing. the word that makes Graffiti different from Art is "permission". That is the main thing I learned in this program.
16 year old male
Graffiti is bad because it destroys people's properties. When you graffiti you are doing something that is against the law. Graffiti on public property hurt the public and make them disgusted. Graffiti on houses is a waste for the owner because they will have to waste their time painting over it and it really pisses them off. They waste their money and their paint. There is no respect for personal and public property from graffiti.
Graffiti also give problems to the people who are part of the community service programs because they're the ones who have to work more by painting and cleaning over it. It has to be washed and scrubbed over and sometimes it doesn't even come off. This is something that makes the members of the community, angry.
Graffiti may lead to tagging battles. In a tagging battle two people or groups of people will tag more than usual and cross out the opposing crews name for the them to win the battle The winner will get a prize of drugs or something or sometimes the losing crew will have to break-up they're crew. Tagging battles will also lead to fights. People fight for tag names. Tagging names are important to most people who chose to graffiti.
Graffiti makes a lot people angry against us. Tagging on public and personal properties makes you an enemy of the people. They will hate you and most of the time is is unforgivable unless you clean it up and show them respect.
Graffiti is bad and it influences the young ones who look up to you. You'll make them become bad too if you do a bad thing like graffiti. Then soon one day your children will be influenced to do this act of destruction. Today many people graffiti and destroy lot of public property and soon there will more. Stop the act of graffiti or just don't start. You will not like serving time with Chuck.
16 year old male 03/25/01
This community service made me become a man and taught me how tagging is not for me. The community service taught me how I can be a man and taught me how tagging is not good. It taught me that I can do anything I want in life if I apply my self. Some people will make you loose your school and make you go to jail. If you don't have nothing to do but go and tag, go to work or do anything else.
16 year old male
This program has been an experience that I will never forget. It definitely has taught me my lesson and I will never do graffiti again. For some so stupid, the consequences are not worth the risk of getting caught.
The program has dome many things for me. I have made new friends. Both with Officers and other program participants. I have learned my lesson to not graffiti from having to wake up early every Saturday and Sunday do buff walls that were huge and covered with graffiti. Walls that took us over an hour to do at a time. Walls that were surrounded by filth and muck. We had to buff in the rain and blistering heat of the city.
However there were some positive aspects of the program as well. I did stop tagging which is good because tagging is dumb, it cost allot of money to clean.
14 year old male 04/08/01
I got arrested on Nov. 17th, 2000 and about 10 weeks later I saw a Judge who suspended my drivers license, gave me 96 hours of community services and that is how I got into the Graffiti Abatement Program, JAWS.
I learned quiet a bit about respecting other people's property and I guess I wouldn't like anyone tagging my house. Painting on Saturdays taught me what it felt like to get up early and work. I guess that it has prepared me for some of the responsibilities of having a job in the future.
I also learned a lot in the tutoring class on Sundays. I learned the consequences of tagging and the possibilities of having my driver's license suspended as well as health issues of smoking cigarettes. The tutoring helped me in my classes at school.
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