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TABLET.
ONLY ON 12 NEWS---
SOME EYE SORES
HAVE RETURNED TO
THE AREA.
CHANCES ARE IF YOU
WERE AT MILWAUKEE'S
LAKEFRONT OVER THE
WEEKEND YOU SAW IT.
WISN 12 NEWS MIKE
ANDERSON IS THERE
LIVE TONIGHT, MIKE
VANDALS ARE BACK
WITH THEIR SPRAY
CANS.
THE TENNIS COURT
SCREENS WERE
REMOVED FROM THE
FENCES HERE THIS
MORNING AFTER
TAGGERS LITTERED
THEM WITH GRAFFITTI.
IT'S A CONSTANT
PROBLEM THE CITY
STRUGGLES WITH BY
CAN'T SEEM TO DO
MUCH TO STOP IT.
PARKS TRUCK:"...."
FIRST THING TUESDAY
MORNING A MILWAUKEE
COUNTY PARKS CREW ROLLS
ONTO THE LAKEFRONT TENNIS
COURTS TO CUT DOWN ...
WORKER:"CLIPS CANVAS"
...
AND HAUL AWAY SOMEBODY'S
MESS.
THEY WERE GETTING RID OF
DAMAGE DONE BY VANDALS
OVERNIGHT.
JOHN DARGLE,
MILWAUKEE CO.
PARKS DIR.:"IT'S NOT VERY
APPRECIATED, WE'RE
UPSET ABOUT IT."
PARKS DIRECTOR JOHN
DARGLE IS CALLING FOR THE
HEADS OF THE VIOLATORS HE
SAYS BECAUSE IT'S COSTING
THE TAX PAYERS TIME AND
MONEY.
JOHN DARGLE:"IT COULD
GET INTO THE THOUSANDS
OF HOURS OF CLEAN UP
AND THEN IT COULD BE
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO
REPLACE AND REPAIR."
WORKERS HAD TO UNDO
DAMAGE AT 3 OTHER COUNTY
PARKS HOT SPOTS AS WELL.
TAGGING IS A FAMILIAR
PRESENCE ALONG THE BREAK
WALL BY THE LAKE BUT WHEN IT
HIT THE TENNIS COURTS EVERY
PASSERBY BY NOTICED.
AND VANDALS WERE AT WORK
ON THE SOUTH SIDE TOO.
BOB DONOVAN,
MILWAUKEE
ALDERMAN:"ANYONE
DRIVING BY HERE SEES
THIS, IT GIVES THEM THE
WRONG IMPRESSION OF THE
NEIGHBORHOOD."
MILWAUKEE ALDERMAN BOB
DONOVAN SHOWED 12 NEWS
THE BUS STOP AT 27TH AND
LAPHAM WHICH WAS
SPRAYED WITH NEW GRAFFITI.
BOB DONOVAN:"WE'VE
SEEN GRAFFITTI GO UP AND
DOWN, SOMETIME YOU
CAN GO FOR MONTHS AND
YOU DON'T SEE A LOT,
OTHER TIMES IT JUST
EXPLODES."
DONOVAN SAYS THE REALITY IS
THAT POLICE ARE RARELY ABLE
TO CATCH ANYONE.
BOB DONOVAN:"THEY
QUICK JUMP OUT OF THEIR
CAR, DO THEIR DAMAGE,
JUMP BACK IN, YOU KNOW
YOU CAN'T SOMEHOW
POLICE THAT."
BUT DONOVAN SAYS
THE CITY HAS
CREATED A PROGRAM
CALLED OPERATION
PAYBACK, WHERE
SOME PEOPLE WHO
HAVE BEEN ARRESTED
FOR GRAFFITTI WERE
SENT OUT TO REMOVE
THE DAMAGE.
LIVE, BY THE
LAKEFRONT IN
MILWAUKEE, MIKE
ANDERSON, WISN 12
NEWS.