Specialty unit. The iplt is really big. There are probably people in this room saying i got graffiti when somebody else wanted it, and thats hard. And theres people like me and the officers i have hired into my units that just love the job and see the value in it, see the value for the community. So youve got to have that interest or else, again, you are going to have not as successful an officer. Now you found the officer, you got him figured out, i talk a lot about officers but the same applies to civilians, anybody sitting out in this audience. Because my concept is anybody can be a graffiti expert and a lot of that comes down to training. Where do you find this training . First its police officers, we get a lot of it through approved training classes, things certified by the state, postclasses and thats fairly consistent in a lot of states that have a group that authorizes what kind of training the officer gets. Articles and books, thats fairly selfexplanatory. And really you wind
Basically be on training and expertise, being able to go out, understand the gravanis culture and then take it to court and get a successful prosecution. Just a little background, im not going to read it all. I pretty much go by sergeant because i was only a lieutenant the last 3 months and i found out if you google me under lieutenant you find something. I stick with sergeant because i have about 14 years on google for that. I spent about 28 years as a Police Officer for the city of san bernardino, california, about 80 miles outside los angeles. Among other things im recognized as an expert on graffiti in california superior court. Without reading all this i want to let you know that i am well rounded, i was supervisor of the unit to be supervisor of a multi agency dealing with it to being executive director for the entire state, california Graffiti Association of california. So i have a fair amount of background. I first became involved in graffiti back in 1991 when i was told in the
Retired from the San Francisco police department, he will be our next key note speakers so please listen to mr. Dwight waldo thank you, drew, im very pleased to be here and im pleased to see so many people attending. My program today will basically be on training and expertise, being able to go out, understand the gravanis culture and then take it to court and get a successful prosecution. Just a little background, im not going to read it all. I pretty much go by sergeant because i was only a lieutenant the last 3 months and i found out if you google me under lieutenant you find something. I stick with sergeant because i have about 14 years on google for that. I spent about 28 years as a Police Officer for the city of san bernardino, california, about 80 miles outside los angeles. Among other things im recognized as an expert on graffiti in california superior court. Without reading all this i want to let you know that i am well rounded, i was supervisor of the unit to be supervisor of
Graffiti in california superior court. Without reading all this i want to let you know that i am well rounded, i was supervisor of the unit to be supervisor of a multi agency dealing with it to being executive director for the entire state, california Graffiti Association of california. So i have a fair amount of background. I first became involved in graffiti back in 1991 when i was told in the gang unit that i was going to be a twoweek assignment to deal with these guys called taggers. I continued until i retired so it was a long two weeks. A lot of times cities dont understand how deep the issue goes. I have had my card handed out, this is my phone number. I have absolutely no problem with people calling me any time to discuss graffiti issues, graffiti cases, any of that stuff, i am always available. Thats why i put my card out there. So first off, before we get into the graffiti part we have to talk about the person whos going to be dealing with graffiti when he goes to court. Pers
A great group of conferences and other people started to pick up on this. When i became an officer dealing with gravanis in 1991, there were no conferences and there was virtually no interest. As dr. Spicer mentioned, every time it got good, i foupld myself out of a job. I was out of a job for about 6 months because it fell apart and then came back together. Mer and more cities are realizing gravanis is a pattern crime and as dr. Spicer pointed out, its a great way crime to many other activities. So you can wind up precluding with a lot of other stuff by dealing with them when they are down to the part doing gravanis damage before they escalate to a more Violent Crime or serious crime. Its nice to attend different trainings. This one here is great because we have people from all over the country, canada and the united kingdom. There are things you are going to listen to when you go, yeah, i would never do that or couldnt do that because of the laws in my political jurisdiction or whate