Change the Behavior – Stop Park Vandalism

You need to change the behavior to stop park vandalism.

What exactly does that mean?

Let us start with the negative consequences that park vandalism brings to the community. Unfortunately, park vandalism has a monetary consequence.  Besides the obvious funds needed to repair the bathrooms, pavilions, or playground equipment, there is also the community’s loss of property value.  Vandalism costs the community much more than just a bathroom that needs to be painted or a toilet that needs to be replaced.

Park Vandalism also causes local mistrust in the community leaders who are not addressing the issue and stopping the problem.  The overall emotion of a city run down by graffiti and broken windows is fear and depression and the problem invites bigger problems such as gang activity and drugs.

On the upside, most park vandalism is committed by the young.  According to Psychological Analysis of Vandalism, “ In General,  vandalism may be motivated by malicious greed, by the wish to draw attention to a particular condition, by a pollical ideology, by the desire for revenge on a particular person, by frustration, or by misguided playfulness.”

While some of these “feelings’ may be hard to change, the thoughts to commit anti-social behavior can be.

If your park is suffering from repeated attacks, you must implement a strategy that changes the behavior of the juveniles that are targeting your park.

Implement a Park Vandalism Deterrent Program.  A successful Park Vandalism Deterrent Program utilizes Park Vandalism Camera Systems that are specifically designed to stop vandalism before it happens.  They are created to be used in parks to stop unwanted social behavior that harms the park’s reputation and the surrounding community.

Change the behavior and stop park vandalism!