Comments about ‘Graffiti tip leads to arrest, earns Provo woman iPod’

Excellent motivation!!! Hope we see a lot of them being handed out.

Yeah, great idea. Let us all turn each other in to the police. For an iPod, the police have us spying on our own neigbors.

Spying on you won't be a problem if you are not breaking the law or committing a crime - ever heard of a neighborhood watch program?

Your snide remark insinuating, "spying on the neighbors," isn't what's being discussed in this article. It's called taking back our neighborhoods from the hoods. It appears from your posting, you think big brother is imposing too heavily into your rights. What are you hiding? Spray cans? meth? weapons? As concerned citizens, we all should be actively involved in cleaning up criminal activities within our society. People have the absolute responsibility to cooperate with the police in building a better community. If law agencies offer incentives such as IPODS, as tools to draw more community support, more power to them. I applaud thier efforts. It's time to clean up your act, or acts (RN).

Everyone is god. And this proves it. Lets all point out eachothers flaws and recieve awards. No man is better or worse in terms of violations, wrong doings etc, however you want to point the finger for the sake of? A better life? How many people do you see everyday light a cigarette? Drink alcohol? etc. Improve the well being of LIFE, as in actual human life. not property and money in which obviously isnt yours to begin with, considering a 200 dollar item is enough to judging and turning over a fellow neighbor.

ridiculous they cant do there jobs so they pay others to do it for em?

honeslty does spray paint really go with meth and weapons. people painting on walls is nothing new i remember back in the day when the egyptions painted on the walls its part of our history.

wow keep trying mr.policeman no matter what there will allways be some one writeing on things

Spray paint, does bring down a neighborhood when in the wrong hands. Why do people tag someone elses property? It marks gang territories, alliances, and contracts, brings down property values, and costs us as US taxpayers millions of dollars each year in clean up. And by the way your so called egytian validation of bad citizenry is flawed. They painted and etched their 'OWN' walls. If you want to do that, more power to you, the easier it will be for the cops and the IPOD recievers to find you, at your own places. Take your artistic gangster mentality elsewhere.

This is a cost saving solution. It costs them less to buy an ipod once for a civilian than constantly paying someone to wash, sandblast, or repaint over graffiti.

Is everyone against this serious??!! Sure its not your property. Its not your problem right? And you dont mind having your taxes raised to have a larger bite out of your paycheck to hire someone to wash all this stuff off.

Fine. Lets all talk to these people and let them know we'd like 5% taken out of everyones paychecks instead so anyone can spraypaint without fear of arrest or responsability.

Hey, if they're giving out iPods as an incentive to stop crime, I'm fine with it. Just last month, we woke up to find the tag of a local gang spray painted not 30 feet from our front door. Who knew that a neighborhood of modest but well-maintained homes would have any reason to be "marked as territory" by local gang members. I applaud our police officers and think this is a great way to inspire more of a "neighborhood watch" mentality within our community.

Like provo really has a grafatti problem....shou;d we start calling it South Central Provo...or East Provo?....give me a break...

Wake up and smell the java juice. Gang problems infiltrated Utah long ago, and yes goody-two-shoe Provo has plenty of them. These misfits wan-na-be families slip quietly into our smallest towns, hoping to lay under the enforcement radar, even though their actions and appearance expose them like sore sore thumbs to locals. I am surprised you haven't noticed. Oh! that's right you're one of those who are against the Neighborhood watch idea, (keeping your eyes closed while homey sprays on.)

if your going to blindly judge graffiti writers and there purpose or motavations you should research it first, yes there are some gang members who vandalize but dont put them and public artists in the same catagory were not similar in any way,

Graffiti is my life. It allows people to see something different than what the government and big corperations pound into our minds. Yet the thought of this, thinking freely and for ourselves, obviously scares people.

Next time you walk down the street, look at all the graffiti, notice how planned out it is, notice the colors.

The majority of graffiti is not gang related.

I pods can't stop us!

graffiti will never stop, ever. gimmicky incentives will only help the problem so much, Seeing stuff like this makes me want to go out and paint my whole city.
and on another note, spray paint is not the same as meth, or a weapon. Paint is paint. A tag is just layer of paint over another, it's not hurting anyone. How about we stop paying police to investigate graffiti, allocate those funds to help the clean up, and stop locking up young adults for merely writing their name. all your doing is preventing them from growing up and becoming a productive adult since they can't get a job because of a minor criminal infraction. It's easy to target graffiti because its a visible crime. but is it as severe a crime as gambling or prostitution? Wheres the dedicated programs and task-forces to fight those "quality of life" crimes? People treat graffiti like it's a big problem. It's writing on a wall.

goes from 5,000 dollar awards. to 200 dollar ipods.

bomb the system son

how do you record a 7 percent drop in graffiti. haha dumb