Spray Paint by Numbers

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857

Number of times the Seattle Police Department responded to graffiti complaints in 2009

43

Number of those incident reports SPD sent to the city attorney for prosecution

$1.8 million

Amount the city spent on graffiti clean up in 2009

$100

Amount the city fines building owners per day for not cleaning graffiti from their structures

4

Number of times police have charged a 22-year-old graffiti suspect—believed to have painted the word “Zeb” all over the city—with vandalism since 2006

59

Percent of city-survey respondents who said graffiti was either “not a problem” or only “a small problem”