In my previous articles, "Graffiti artists vs. property owners" and "How you can affect graffiti" (which you can view by clicking the Storyline tab to the right), the discussion played mostly on property owners, graffiti removal and costs involved. That's only a a part of the issues involved with graffiti. There's a lot I'd like to know about the person holding the spray paint. What happens when a tagger (the person colorfully broadcasting their moniker) gets caught for vandalizing property? ... Mona enuhaeyuheeuhteeuh1 comment-39366 2010-10-23T00:27:32Z 2010-10-23T00:27:32Z Graffiti artists don't even have interest in a private owned wall such as someones house (yours or your neighbors) or a privately owned business (your local grocery store).. its not like we don't know what we are doing and go risk getting a fine or time behind bars to go paint on a WALMART so it can be removed the next day.. We target spots that will actually stay a while and can be seen by the ones that want to see it. The most you can do about it is set up legal graffiti walls and have more respect for the artists.. We are the one's out there risking ourselves just so we can do what makes us feel alive while your sitting at home watching the news complaining about every single issue it mentions. Sacramento is the only city in California that tries to declare a "ban" on graffiti.. Look at New York.. They tried everything in their power to stop it. Did it stop? No. People die over gang related graffiti and the community decides to leave that up longer then an individual artists piece. We are everyday living people.. Just like you. We experience good and bad.. Just like you. We live in the same city as you do! If graffiti was legal for at least a year you would drive down the road and see a piece of art that reaches out to you and make you think 'Wow I couldn't do that even if I tried". We know our consequences whether it's getting arrested to dying if we fall off of something. Let us do our thing it's none of your business.. We haven't done anything to you. Graffiti is a word used to describe a genre of art.. Not vandalism.. We are everyday people.. It's your judgements that makes us vandals. enuhaeyuheeuhteeuh1 2010-10-23T00:27:32Z enuhaeyuheeuhteeuh1 comment-39362 2010-10-22T23:37:32Z 2010-10-22T23:37:32Z it comes from non-gang related artists.. enuhaeyuheeuhteeuh1 2010-10-22T23:37:32Z Handcuffed Tagger comment-31953 2010-07-01T06:54:09Z 2010-07-01T06:54:09Z graffiti laws definitly need to b in effect bt nt so severe. a year in jail is crap fr a beautiful peice of art on tha side of a building, evn if tha tagger dsnt own it Handcuffed Tagger 2010-07-01T06:54:09Z palow comment-21891 2010-02-08T21:55:54Z 2010-02-08T21:55:54Z im wrtiting a report on grafftitit, send me facts at paulolangi@yahoo.com palow 2010-02-08T21:55:54Z Jack001 comment-11578 2009-08-05T03:41:18Z 2009-08-05T03:41:18Z by the way, im 13 Jack001 2009-08-05T03:41:18Z bradyquinnsmydog comment-5519 2009-04-03T18:18:06Z 2009-04-03T18:18:06Z there shouldn't be such a penalty. it's art. let it go and let me live bradyquinnsmydog 2009-04-03T18:18:06Z Mona Romero comment-850 2008-11-11T19:58:45Z 2008-11-11T19:58:45Z Thanks for your comment, yoginimelie. I read on the City of Sacramento website that about twenty percent of graffiti in Sacramento is gang-related. It's hard to tell how accurate that percentage is. If it is a close estimate, I'd like to know where the other 80 or so percent comes from. Mona Romero 2008-11-11T19:58:45Z yoginimelie comment-846 2008-11-11T17:09:53Z 2008-11-11T17:09:53Z It's almost a moot point, since most of the graffiti in Sacramento is the result of gang activity. They are often never caught. yoginimelie 2008-11-11T17:09:53Z