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wall graffiti phenomenon: 75 million in damages Corriere della Sera

graffiti phenomenon: 75 million in damages Corriere della Sera

They love to death and wielding a spray can. He 15, she 13. To seal an eternal feeling, choose a green paint. And a wall that has 1,500 years of history. The words "I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." Last Wednesday afternoon, the center of Ravenna, the police blocked the two children who stutter in front of the question, "Do you know what you smeared?". It is a wall near the Basilica of San Vitale, the most important Byzantine architecture in the West. The fifteen will be tried by the Juvenile Court of damage Bologna.I There are also the young lovers of Ravenna behind the millions of written, tags, drawings and murals that color (or dirty) the walls of Italian cities. He says a search of the city police of Milan: a boy in two, between 13 and 18 years, at least when practiced on a wall with a can or a marker. Graffiti that are rampant. And they cost. The major Italian cities are spending amounting to almost € 25 million a year to clean up the facades of buildings and fix vandalized public areas. The local transport companies are most affected. Simple: trains are palettes that lead works - or junk - around the city, the subways have the charm of the underground, tram and bus windows are ideal for a great trend, the incision with the cutting edge . The replacement cost of the glasses to ATM Milan 2 million and a half years. Adding up the cost of transport companies, railways, superintendents and private, they go at least another 50 million euro in damages and ripuliture.A each his students of the sociology of deviance from the University of Bologna took to the streets and have them counted. Pen and paper, in little more than a week have probed the walls of San Vitale and Reno areas at the end of December, the Corriere di Bologna published the results of your search: 1713 'works' counted. But what matters is the proportion: 119 graffiti every hundred inhabitants, more than one each. With an alarming level of proliferation. Because in September the City had spent 21,000 euro to clean its streets considered by students. It means that those graffiti (90 per cent in writing and tags that have nothing to artistic) occurred in three months, at a rate of about 20 a day. For the other cities is difficult to get numbers. Milan is only an estimate of Assoedilizia, that the buildings were defaced more than 40 000. Other statistics show that Milan and Roma has a contingent of about 2 000 graffiti head in Bologna are a thousand. To understand the spread of the phenomenon you can apply to traders. In Milan they sell 20,000 cans of writers every six months, each "ball" (as they call in Rome) and costs about € 3 mezzo.I graffiti projects, elusive world. Hard to classify: it collects money and is filled with four artists arrived to museums, twelve years old and forties, anarchists and neo-Nazis, ultra-lovers and students. While art critics debate (works or vandalism?), Municipalities waver: Milan is the leader of the repression, but also organizes the largest Italian exhibition on graffiti (Sweet art, street art), the mayor threatens Cofferati Action code Criminal 'Turin, is a pioneer of dialogue and writing legalized; Rome seeks to bring together the two ways, and January 31 on Capitol Hill organized a seminar between Italian and European cities. On the first front, half-model looks to Italy Turin. It starts from a premise: "There is a creativity which is interesting given space," says the councilor for urban decoration, Ilda Curti. With a warning: "A covenant to agree how and where." So in 2000, was born Murarte. Grant of walls, License for writers, private warehouses that have to be painted. The commandment to distinguish between aesthetic expression and pure vandalism. Dialogue on the one hand and suppress the other. You that it seeks to do as Rome, with two projects: cROMiAe artis Magistra and Rome. The second is devoted to high school, but also medium-sized "because - explain the offices of the urban decor - kids start with the cans even at 10-11 years." The result of the dialogue are three different locations (Laurentina metro station, subway station Tuscolana and San Lorenzo) reclassified from graffiti. Since the explosion of the drop in gray color. On the other hand, there is Milan. That despite the provocation councilor Vittorio Sgarbi ("Graffiti of the center Leoncavallo are the Sistine Chapel of our times"), remains the capital of zero tolerance. A special team of vigilant hunt down the writer. The headquarters of the newly formed National Association of graffiti. But also at the forefront of cleaning up. The model produced the Lombard campaign I lav Milan, through which have been cleaned up more than 14 000 private buildings in three years. The AMSA (Municipalities-played the garbage) offers a free initial cleaning after you pay for maintenance. But only 20 percent of the buildings adhere to phase two, offered at discounted prices. The fury graffiti off when it comes to open your wallet.

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New Year, Piazza Duomo in the hands of thugs

New Year, Piazza Duomo in Milan the hands of thugs Repubblica.it

Baby gangs, drunks and thugs have taken hostage the night last year, a deserted Piazza Duomo. And not just there: a two door Ticinese olds were robbed by a gang of South American armed with a knife. The same, perhaps, gone unnoticed by the most important square of the city and throwing bottles smashed against the church and attacked "anyone who happened to be passing nearby, especially women," as Angelo says Valdez, a citizen happened there at that time. Groping, insults, guys pissing next to the monument. "Some families with kids running away and the few tourists were stunned. We too have been afraid and we went away in a hurry, "continues Valdez, according to which 'it was noticed the presence of forces order. "And to think that just to preserve the Duomo square, the Municipality has decided to move elsewhere, the events of the New Year. A decision that the deputy mayor Riccado De Corato still defends: "If there were issues of public policy must answer who is deputy to ensure this and I did not before. A concert, however, would bring a greater influx of people and many more fighting and devastation. All in all, the New Year in Milan, despite some incidents, it was not the worst. " And the superintendent Alberto Artioli, the most intransigent defenders of the integrity of Piazza Duomo, acknowledges that "on occasions like New Year is difficult to manage incursions of the uncivilized." The last night of the year was a bit 'anywhere, for that matter, a favorable opportunity for crime: three foreigners were stabbed (Via Legnano, via San Protaso and near the Duomo), in a bar Gratosoglio was given to flames and in a way Varesine Islamic butcher was even blown up. In Turin, a twenty-one via Emilia was robbed of cell phone shortly after midnight on a Sapri a woman was robbed of purse by two nomads who slapped her husband. And Baranzate an Albanian was stabbed by a senior, both were in a car before you buy for dinner. There were also injured in the barrels: a young man lost three of Cinisello Balsamo fingers, a 14 year old Cusano Milanino has been burned in one ear. And in Sesto San Giovanni the owner of a restaurant shooting trial was put in place, with a gun against the signs.
But 2008 has also led Milan to good news. As the birth of Martin, the first baby of the new year, come to light by Italian parents at the clinic Macedonio Melloni. A success, then, the events organized by the city: Piazza Castello 10 thousand people in the revival of the '70s and '80s, the smooth to 2 thousand and 400 Palalido to dinner at the park on Via Palestro. Record of receipts also at the Teatro Smeraldo - € 140 thousand for 1500 admissions - for the last show of Legnanesi. But all this, the archbishop said Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan during the Thanksgiving to New Year in San Fedele, we must not forget that "there is a city of the unseen, the poor and then in 2008 we must continue to create" new conditions of coexistence with the Roma. " In the same spirit of openness to other cultures, yesterday afternoon, the community of Sant'Egidio organized in piazza San Carlo a meeting with a Buddhist Monaco witness the repression of the Burmese regime.
(02 January 2008)

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New York, "only" 492 murders record year: 80% from 1990 - Foreign - Repubblica.it

NEW YORK - For the city of New York in 2007 was a record year in terms of murders, "only" 492 "at all last night," as pointed out by the New York Times. It 's the first time since 1963 that there are fewer than 500 U.S. cities in murders over the twelve months. A fact that reflects an important change in the metropolis. Only 20 years ago, the city had over 2,000 murders a year, with a peak of 2,245 in 1990: 80% more compared to 2007 figures. Some consider Rudolph Giuliani, mayor for much of the nineties and now a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, the author only in reducing the rate of violence in the city. Nationally in 1993, when Giuliani was elected, marking the culmination of many crimes and the implications for 2000, 2001, last years of the Giuliani and his "zero tolerance", they recorded a record low. Some scholars believe that the increase in recorded murders in the eighties was in part due to armed youths involved in the crack market. "In 1993 - according to Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh - began to spread rumors about the dangers of crack and demand collapsed. There is an ongoing decline in arrests for illegal possession of weapons. In part it was due to 'enormous economic development of the nineties, who offered some of those young lawful occupations, and partly to the extraordinary number of prisoners. "


The Seventies and eighties have seen increasing political repression. The number of Americans behind bars is passt from about 600 000 of the early seventies to 2.2 million today. George Kelling, a criminologist at Rutgers University, considered one of the fathers of New York's crime strategies, said that the merit of the largest drop in crime was recorded in New York than in most other cities continues to be attributable to actual strategies: "A good management of public order. " Not only is "zero tolerance". They were put into practice theories, such as the so-called philosophy of "broken windows". Assuming that broken glass, dirty sidewalks, graffiti, alcohol consumption in public were a sign of encouragement for vandalism and other forms of serious crime, started a campaign to fight against large-scale urban decay. The Police Department of New York City also uses computers to analyze crime trends in order to concentrate resources in areas of high incidence of crime. And things changed. (December 31, 2007)