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Create a Safe Park Environment

Create a Safe Park Environment

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The National Recreation Association created an excellent article on Park Safety.  One of the highlights from the article is park management should conduct a Community Based Safety Audit.  A Community Base Safety Audit will give your park a clear indication as to whether or not your park is perceived safe.  According to the article having the perception of a safe park is just as vital as having actual safety within the park.

If the community perceives that crime takes place such as vandalism, graffiti and drug use, they will not visit the park. The article lists several solutions:

  • Programmed sports and other activities
  • All activities include a human presence
  • Clear and understandable signage
  • Lighting that enhances the perception of safety
  • Surveillance: formal and informal

The article also shares success stories experienced by hard to hit cities.

All the highlights help in reducing unwanted activity such as vandalism, graffiti and drug use.  However, creating a safe park environment is not easy.  Besides the physical presence of a human monitoring activities, Park Vandalism Cameras provide a presence.  Park Vandalism Cameras are specifically designed to stop unwanted activities that affect Quality- of- Life.  They are different than traditional surveillance cameras, as the are proactive and provide prosecutable evidence such as a tattoo or ink on a finger.

Work with your community and create a safe park.

 

Stop Park Graffiti-Stop Community Depression

Stop Park Graffiti-Stop Community Depression

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Nature is essential to human happiness. Those who spend more of their time outdoors have a stronger immune system and are able to avoid illness. Did you know that being out in nature also helps improve mental health? Outdoor activities improve the mental state and increases serotonin.

People enjoy the parks in many different ways.  Some use the park for activities like tennis, soccer or baseball.  Others spend time at the park to picnic with loved ones or walk on trails.  Regardless of the reason people are drawn to a park, graffiti and vandalism will dampen their enthusiasm. Most people do not long to spend leisure time in a neglected park, riddled with graffiti or broken equipment.

This is because clean parks increase our overall well-being.

Many cities face the issue of keeping their parks graffiti-free. For some people, the only park in their community is one that experiences the crime of graffiti and vandalism. When these people walk through their park and see the graffiti and vandalism every day, it sends negative signals to their brain. It makes the community feel dirty and depressed knowing that their local park has been violated.

It is extremely important to keep parks clean. Quality-of-Life Crime Deterrent Systems are specially designed for parks to stop negative behavior such as graffiti and vandalism at parks.  Utilizing Quality-of-Life Crime Systems, very important tools, prevent costly clean up and equipment replacement.

Preventing the crime of graffiti from occurring in the first place is the safest and less costly option to protect the park against unnecessary depression caused by graffiti and vandalism.

 

#Nograffiti #Novandalism #ProtectParks #WeAreParksAndRec #StopVandalism

 

Protect Your Skate Park

Protect Your Skate Park

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If your community has a skate park then you know protecting it and keeping it clean from trash, vandalism, and graffiti is challenging.  And if the park is not kept clean the reputation of the park is at stake.  When the skate park’s reputation takes a downturn, it can turn into an avalanche.

Skate parks are designed and implemented into the community to improve the park experience. According to the Tony Hawk Foundation, a majority of police-enforcement officers consider their skate park to be an asset and is a positive addition to the park.  This is good news.

Skate parks add so much fun for the community for adults and children alike.  The positive aspect of this type of activity is endless.    A lot of children today are over-weight and need activities that entice them to get out and move.  Skate boarding is an activity that does just that.

However, trash, graffiti, and vandalism are some of the major issues at a skate park and will damage the reputation of the park.  Once graffiti and vandalism have started, it is a battle to keep it away.  Even worse graffiti and vandalism attract more serious crimes.  An upkept Skate Park is also less appealing and gives off the sense that the park is not safe.  An abandoned Skate Park will fall prey to all sorts of crimes that a park’s department will not want to deal with.

To prevent negative behavior and quality of life crimes that threaten the reputation of the skate park, measures need to be taken.

Skate Park Cameras are designed to specifically stop negative behavior at parks. They are not just cameras that passively take pictures.

Protect your Skate Park from Quality-of-Life Crimes!

Brief History of Graffiti and the Negative Effects

Brief History of Graffiti and the Negative Effects

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Graffiti is a controversial matter, especially in the United States. Many people see graffiti as a culturally significant artform that brings vibrancy to communities. Others see graffiti as a stain on what would otherwise be pristine and respectable communities. Interestingly, the term graffiti is an Italian word. Graffiti is actually the plural form of the mid-19th century Italian word “graffito,” meaning, “a scratch.” Ancient forms of graffiti can be seen scratched into stonewalls in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The style of graffiti we are familiar with today began in New York in the late 1960s, being heavily influenced by hip-hop culture. Contemporary graffiti began with the underlying desire for artists to have their work seen by as many people as possible by tagging popular buildings and trains. This dream was made possible with the invention of the aerosol spray can, so that no subway car or freight train was safe from graffiti.

Although the original intentions of graffiti artist may be to express one’s art and brighten up a bland and dirty city, graffiti has become a stubborn blight on communities. Most graffiti is crude and sloppy. Most people see graffiti as a bad omen of gang activity encroaching on a community’s peaceful existence rather than art. Far from improving a space, graffiti often drains a community’s finances by depreciating nearby property values and forcing the government to use taxpayer dollars to clean up the graffiti. Both patrons and employees feel threatened by the presence of graffiti near the workplace, which can seriously hamper the success of a business.

Graffiti must be stopped. The most effective way to stop graffiti from occurring is by installing anti-graffiti cameras, specially designed to deter this unwanted criminal activity. Most graffiti “artists” believe that they can operate with impunity, but if that belief is debunked, they will be seriously deterred from committing any crime. Anti-Graffiti Cameras are designed to both ward off would-be criminals and identify criminals who choose to follow through on their destructive intentions. There is no better solution to stop graffiti than Anti-Graffiti Cameras.

#nograffiti #stopgraffiti #parksandrecreation #weareparksandrec #parks4all #protectparks #publicworks #security