So you want to stop Graffiti in your neighborhood?

The other day, I was listening to one woman ask another about how to stop the graffiti in her neighborhood. It go me think just how one might go about stopping something like this. After all, don’t you basically have to catch the graffiti artist in the act to be able to tell him to stop. That’s a hard thing to do, because criminals are notorious for doing what they do when nobody is around.

Then I thought, how exactly do we stop criminals from breaking into our home? Well, obviously we have locks, but aside from that, we have alarms and stickers on our window that say we have alarms in the house.

So why not bring this sticker idea to the crime prevention of graffiti? It’s easy. All you would need to do is make a sign that says the following:

THIS AREA IS UNDER VIDEO SURVEILLANCE BY HIDDEN CAMERAS
Evidence of illegal activities will be turned over to the police for investigative purposes.

Now, this is not 100% sure to work, but at least having a sign that says that on or near the structure that is getting graffiti might act as a strong deterent.

The catch is that there really are no cameras. Just a sign. Since it says that the cameras are hidden, the graffiti artist might look, but will never find it, then they will get paranoid and leave.

If you decide to try this out, let me know. I would like to know if it works!