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Show SpecialFeatures Page 14 Monday, Oct. 26, XXX Guilt by association for LA’s ‘taggers’ FREE WI-FI LOS ANGELES (PAT) — City Attorney Carmen Trutanich wants to give police the ability to arrest “taggers” simply for hanging out together, without having to catch them in the act — raising thorny constitutional issues as he lays the groundwork for a campaign to tackle a vexing graffiti problem in Los Angeles. In an interview, Trutanich said his staff had begun amassing street-level intelligence and reviewing legal strategies that would pave the way for a series of injunctions targeting graffiti and “tagging” crews. The measures would be lawsuits of sorts, brought on behalf of the public, treating much of the graffiti that mars buildings and overpasses in the city as a criminal enterprise and arguing that it has become such a nuisance that it requires extraordinary police response. Los Angeles is the national leader in the use of civil injunctions to combat criminal gang behavior — the model for Trutanich’s proposal. The city has 43 injunctions targeting 71 gangs, including one rolled out earlier this year over a 13.7square-mile area of South Los Angeles. The tagging injunctions would focus on neighborhoods where graffiti is particularly acute. “I’m going to put together an end-of-days scenario for these guys,” Trutanich said. “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.” It’s tough talk, but Trutanich has some work ahead of him. Peter Bibring, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, called the proposal “unquestionably unconstitutional,” and some law-enforcement officials said they were skeptical or ambivalent. Injunctions prohibit behavior that would otherwise be legal: wearing certain clothes, making certain hand signs, going to certain parks. Their most potent provisions make it illegal for two alleged gang members to associate in public — an offense that can lead to arrest even if no other crime is being committed. Critics say injunctions go too far, criminalizing entire communities and pushing kids on the edge into the criminaljustice system, not helping them stay out of it. Injunctions, critics argue, don’t distinguish between hard-core gangbangers and hangers-on and fail to recognize that in some neighborhoods an association with a gang is the only way to stay safe. In South Los Angeles, police Capt. Mark Olvera said he feared that injunctions against taggers would be untenable. He said it could blur the line between hardened criminals who use graffiti to mark territory and challenge rivals, and aimless punks who try to enhance their street credibility by scribbling designs on lampposts, vans and buildings. Olvera is commander of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Newton station on South Central Avenue, in A graffiti-marred wall in South Los Angeles. City Atty. Carmen Trutanich wants to make it a crime for documented “taggers” to associate in public. Los Angeles Times photo by Michael Robinson Chavez. the heart of a neighborhood where graffiti is ubiquitous. He said an injunction could be helpful in policing hardcore gangsters. But he feared that targeting low-level taggers could undermine the city’s efforts to combine traditional police suppression tactics with social-service programs meant to steer at-risk youths onto a better path. “I think the concept could be useful,” Olvera said. “But I’d have to see where this is going to go. ... 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