Comments on: Hey, NYC Vandal Task Force – Follow the Money!

By: Posterchild’s Blade Diary » Archive » FlyerPlanterboxes!

Posterchild’s Blade Diary » Archive » FlyerPlanterboxes! — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:33:29 +0000

[...] know, the New York City Transit Police Vandal Squad (now the Citywide Vandals Task Force) is a notorious department that was created to focus on subway vandalism, and Joe Rivera was one of it’s more notorious [...]

By: Emily Gallagher

Emily Gallagher — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:16:57 +0000

If the vandalism task force is so big, how come the tires on my bike keep getting slashed when I park it in close proximity to the Greenpoint BK police station? I’m talking 3 times in two months. That’s vandalism… but I guess it’s poor person to poor person vandalism, so it doesn’t matter.

By: Graffiti

Graffiti — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:06:12 +0000

75 officers! Crazy… In Manchester there about 5 and they work for the Transport Police. They probably bust about 60 people a year…

By: Gotham Gazette - The Wonkster » Blog Archive » Illegal Advertisers Off the Hook?

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:03:43 +0000

[...] fact, the Anti-Advertising Agency points out that the Police Department’s vandal squad doesn’t even arrest such ad perps. Of the nearly 3,800 arrests they made in 2007, none of those arrests were for [...]

By: Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:01:43 +0000

for example: http://consumerist.com/385497/la-has-4000-illegal-billboards-but-city-looks-on-helplessly

By: Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:18:19 +0000

Liz, my point is that many advertisers are not paying for permits. The ads are just as illegal as any graffiti writer's work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:08:36 +0000

But advertisers pay the city for permits and buildings for the space to use.

So, essentially, Advertisers are paying those detective salaries.