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Operation Payback makes its mark after graffiti taggers leave theirs

Aug 26th, 2009

By Tom Tolan of the Journal Sentinel
“At first, Payback was a program just for taggers on probation, Edwards said, but then word of it got out to probation officers, and some of them assigned clients with other offenses. It got so successful that similar operations were launched in police Districts 2 and 5 – which, like District 6, contain some of the city’s biggest graffiti hotspots, on the south and east sides.”

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Clarke Square National Night Out Bigger and Better

So many organizations come together to make this event possible every year that it would be difficult to mention them all; but all are committed to creating and maintaining a better Southside and a safe place to live, work, and raise families.

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Captain Gaglione

How’s that for community-oriented policing?

In 2007 several people were convicted and sentenced to probation and community service hours for thousands of dollars of graffiti damage throughout the City of Milwaukee. Project Pay Back was officially started on April 3, 2008 and was developed to use people on probation who had required community service, to work removing criminal acts of graffiti.

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Operation Payback Community Service Project

Working with 6th District Police Capt. Gaglione, Alderman Donovan, Probation and Parole, Sharon Blando of DNS Graffiti and local Safe Places, Safe & Sound Community Partners played an integral role in the removal of hundreds of instances of graffiti on homes and businesses during neighborhood improvement efforts. This project called ‘Operation Pay Back’ was highlighted [...]

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