Work with the community

• Print graffiti prevention messages on bags sales flyers, tray liners, book covers, calendars and others promotional items.
• Refrain from using graffiti images in ads or promoting graffiti in any way.
• Utilize our online contact form to report graffiti where ever you see it.
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Businesses Can Control access

• Incorporate shrubs, thorny plants, vines to restrict vandals.
• Add improve lighting around building to promote natural surveillance.
• Use fences, controlled entrances and exits, rails, and other barriers that discourage through traffic.
• Limit access to roofs by moving dumpsters away from walls and covering ladders and drainpipes to prevent vandals from scaling them.
• step up security
• Install some type of security camera.
• Organize a “Business Watch” with nearby merchants to keep tabs on a business area.
• Businesses may want to employ security personnel to monitor the property.
• Employ graffiti resistant materials or coatings on a chronically hit wall.

REMEMBER GRAFFITI IS A CRIME!

IDENTIFY. Work with local authorities to identify if the graffiti is being done by gangs or taggers.

DOCUMENT. Take a picture of the graffiti before it is removed. Photographs will assist law enforcement in their investigation.

REMOVE. Remove graffiti promptly and completely.

Brought to you by the Southern Nevada Graffiti Coalition and the Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS® submitted by Kevin Child

Important Hotlinks:

• LVPD Main Website