Chicago, Illinois:  Outside of Chicago, Highland Police are searching for a suspect in his late teens for multiple graffiti attacks at the local high school and public park.  

Surveillance footage is helping to identify the suspect.  The graffiti celebrated serial killer Ted Bundy.

The school custodian was able to quickly remove the graffiti.  This rapid response denied the opportunity to anyone to see the graffiti and is considered a best practice in graffiti abatement.

London, England:  For the second time in a month, anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on a Jewish Girls School in London.  

The graffiti included a Nazi swastika and the words "Yids Sh*t".  The earlier graffiti attack included the words "Yids Out"

A traditional rivalry between two high schools in Ogden, Utah in the lead up to the big football game resulted in graffiti vandalism.  Defacing a rival school building is one thing, but the swastikas are another. 

Did this push the rivalry and pranks too far?  Did both school administrations issue statements condemning the graffiti attack?  Did the second school make an offer to help cover some of the costs of graffiti removal?

Nope. The second school district suggested that people should not blame their students, because the graffiti attack was possibly done by "some provokers".  At least we know that the school is doing a good job teaching their students their values...

An elementary school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was the target of a graffiti attack over night.  The extensive black spray paint graffiti covered multiple walls and is expected to cost the School District thousands of dollars to clean up. 


With school budgets stretched thin, the dollars spent to remove graffiti are reallocated from another priorities. Perhaps a vacant building or some other blighted structure is fair game for graffiti, but tagging on schools, or for that matter, churches, parks, and community centers is vandalism.  No matter how good the "street art" is, the costs for removal is real and drain funds away from much needed improvements and maintenance.