One commenter mentioned that it is time for Venetians to clean up their own neighborhoods and to let people “know we are a community, not Disneyland, or a ghetto no one cares for.”

Absolutely! Start out one block at a time. Wipe out that graffiti and pick up the debris.

The Oxford Triangle, subject of article, has a person who takes care of the graffiti for the neighborhood. Neighbors donate to this fund. A few other neighborhoods do the same. If your neighborhood does not do such, start with a can of Graffiti Removal by Goof Off. This is excellent to take graffiti off smooth surfaces. Get some white paint for the porous surfaces. Contact Pacific Graffiti Solutions at: graffiti@wwwpgs.net for the big stuff. Do it one block at a time. That tells the gangs you are alert, you care, and their marks are not welcome.

A Triangle resident called all the trash bin deliverers (four or five) and told them to clean up their bins. They were told that they were providing gang advertisements and residents did not want that in the neighborhood. All the bins were replaced except for a couple. They are now kept clean by bin providers or by the neighborhood graffiti crew.

That is the first big step and the second would be to pick up the debris and toss it. Call the number on your garbage cans for large, special pickups.

Anyone have suggestions for this person for cleaning it up, one block at a time?