Training an officer gets. Articles and books is fairly selfexplanator y and the internet. If you are curious about anything having to do with graffiti google graffiti stuff. You get on youtube and put down tag crews fighting and you get a whole bunch of videos of tag groups fighting and that is not just battling with paint, but physical altercations. The thing about the internet, sometimes people will ignore some of the major graffiti site because were here to fight graffiti and why go to a graffiti site . A lot of guys with dedicated sites, you can read all kinds of articles and get all kinds of information written by taggers for taggers trying to train other taggers to be vandals. So dont ignore the fact there is stuff out there designed for the graffiti vandal, because that can be of huge use for you for gaining expertise. You know, meetings. I have had some discussion with people already today. We hold a monthly Task Force Meeting and our Task Force Meeting pretty much encompasses
Part of town that sets a lot of sunshine and typically the size of a roof that works for a about a 500,000 installation. The advantage of these installations is that they install it for free. They maintain it for 25 years and we get the power in the school at exactly the same rate we would pay if it came across a wire from hetch hetchy, so its sort of the universal winwin of going green. Now, on the flip side were also doing some of our own installations so were trying both. We have just finished the first one that they did for us at el dorado and the puc subcontracted the work out to their solar provider commissioner. The project was done complete on time and on schedule with the group and in fact the grand opening of the installation, and i think commissioner wynns was due to be one of the keynote speakers happened to fall on the day of the connecticut tragedy and it was canceled so that is still to happen so i cant speak to the particulars commissioner. Can i get you the information
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