City Police Want To Curb Graffiti Spread

Graffiti artists are typically smart, introverted young men who need a push in the right direction...that from Sgt. Jim Fleming, giving an update on Saint John's graffiti eradication program. He tells CHSJ News there's a culture of mentoring when kids get into "tagging".

Fleming says sometimes you see nice tags with good designs showing they are talented and below you will see rudimentary drawings which means the artist wants to be like the artist doing the bigger tags or is a wannabe.

Fleming says graffiti isn't a huge problem here--but it does come up from time to time, and is time-consuming and sometimes expensive to remove.