LA City Attorney Carmen Trutanic is planing to create tagger injunctions, after proposing it for gang members. In my opinion, this plan just goes overboard due to the fact that taggers don't even need to do anything illegal to be arrested!
Trutanic states,"If you want to tag, be prepared to go to jail. And I don't have to catch you tagging. I can just catch you . . . with your homeboys."
Like gang injunctions, it causes racial profiling and an invasion of privacy. How would police know who the taggers are? Are they going to search every person's belongings to look for any tagging materials?
In my opinion, this enforcement is just a way for authorities to scare taggers away and prevent them from tagging on public or private properties. Who would tag on a place where it is police enforced or within a radius of an authority.
Overall, I oppose this new idea of tagger injunctions because it's not worth it to spend a great amount of money on an issue that is not as damaging as gang activity, especially during US's economic crisis.
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