Por KENDRA SITTON | Noticias del centro y la zona alta<\/p>\n
A new analysis of reported graffiti in San Diego has interesting findings about the city\u2019s response to vandalism, including that wealthier neighborhoods like La Jolla and Pacific Beach had faster clean-up times than poorer areas like Mid-City.<\/p>\n
Defense Attorney George H. Ramos, Jr. And his firm partnered with data visualization firm 1Point21 Interactive to build a map based on all the removal requests of graffiti from 2018 to September 2020 on the Get It Done app.<\/p>\n
While the city aims to send crews to clean graffiti within five days of a request, the group found that the average time between when a report is made and when the city sends a team to clean up the graffiti is 23.5 days, a number that includes cases that are still in process. In some areas, the wait time for a crew to come was much longer. In Pacific Beach, it took an average of 17.8 days to respond to a request compared to 42.7 days in Mid-City.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe data shows very clearly shows that graffiti in wealthier areas is cleaned up much faster than in lower income areas; in fact, almost twice as fast,\u201d Sam Larson of 1Point21 Interactive said.<\/p>\n
The pandemic has affected removal requests. The report found that since lockdown began, reports fell by 27% compared to the same period in 2018.<\/p>\n
In total, the analysis found that in the two-year period there were 85, 841 requests to remove graffiti. The largest portion, 13,794, were in Mid-City: City Heights. While a complaint-based system of solving issues can favor wealthier areas, in this case, the area with the most complaints still had a slower response than wealthier areas \u2014 suggesting not enough resources may be allocated to address the need there.<\/p>\n
View the interactive map bit.ly\/3mSUbmX<\/a>.<\/p>\n