Telling us how we should be managing or programs or which neighborhoods we should be looking at. This is a graphic analysis of the neighborhoods. I dont have a pointer, ill get my head out of the way. Downtown was one of our key problem areas that we started out with but were seeing a steady decline in the downtown core. So basically we have been focusing a lot of our programming in the downtown area. We had a huge decrease in the gardineau neighborhood in the second year but something has happened in that neighborhood to pop it back up. So its allowing us to look neighborhood by neighborhood to look at the Community Enforcement officers woork they are doing there so next year when we go to do a hire, our bylaw officers are working with revitalization, ill be sharing this information with them to say these are the key neighborhoods you need to be in touch with as well as the different constables and beat officers to say, look, this is a problem and this is whats trending in your neighb
Put in the notification system. So we have those tags documented against him so they are going to levy more charges against him. So its been clearly helpful in terms of our enforcement efforts but it is clearly seen if you can get out those top 10taggers its going to make a huge difference. They accounted for 40 percent of the activity seen this year in the audit. Most graffiti we found is small, 88 percent of the observed graffiti was smalled or extra small. So basically were not looking at big tags. The argument that we keep getting that they are beautiful pieces of art just isnt holding because they are very small pieces of graffiti. Thats just the same visually. Again, most graffiti is text. 90 percent of the text, with all those categories that we have where were trying to depict what graffiti is out there, we can now go to the arts council or anybody else who wants to argue with us and say 90 percent of the observed graffiti we have in edmonton is text only. Given all those optio
When we go to do a hire, our bylaw officers are working with revitalization, ill be sharing this information with them to say these are the key neighborhoods you need to be in touch with as well as the different constables and beat officers to say, look, this is a problem and this is whats trending in your neighborhood. So its been very beneficial to us in terms of how we deploy our resources. Five neighborhoods accounted for 46 percent of the graffiti vandalism observed in 2012. Even though i showed you in that last slide that downtown is decreasing, it still is one of our most significant neighborhoods as far as graffiti. Queen mary park. Those 5 neighborhoods within the exception of one, have remained fairly consistent from the beginning of the program. Although the percentage of how much graffiti they have has gone down. What were finding, too, is that while the reduction in the graffiti over all was very minimal this year, we saw huge swings in the amount of graffiti vandalism by
Occurred in 2011. So the larger the dot, the more intensity the graffiti was at that particular location. The blue dots indicate how much graffiti or what the graffiti was at each location in terms of the incidents for 2012. So you can see from here, its not i was hoping for a better visual, but in here in the hot spot neighborhood, this is one example where the hot spot neighborhood isnt as significant as the random area. The random area is showing more graffiti vandalism than the hot spot neighborhood, but the intensity is pretty clear. If were going to tackle a neighborhood we need to be looking here, we need to be looking in here. So its been very beneficial in terms of where we should be looking in terms of our programming. This is another example of another neighborhood where it was the complete opposite, it was very clear that the random area isnt as much of an issue as the hot spot area in that neighborhood and theres hardly any tagging done in the random area in 2012. So the l
Text only. Given all those options, thats what were finding. So the other avenue thats important for us in terms of how i run my program is when im trying to promote a Mural Program or im trying to promote Community Support programs, its really important for me to basically say that you cant cut the community portion of my program because 71 percent of the observed graffiti is on private property. Only 10 percent of our graffiti in those neighborhoods was observed, was on city infrastructure. Other government considered 19 percent and of that 97 percent was on canada post boxes like they are the drop boxes that the mail carriers use for picking up their mail to deliver. They are being phased out, though, so again within the next year or so, those boxes are going to be phased out in edmonton so well see if it makes a change in graffiti results. But it also assists us in terms of how we approach them. So we take this information to canada post and basically say, get rid of the gray boxes