We shoot them or they shoot us. I'm gotten jumped a few times. During the day I carry a screwdriver or knife for protection. I grew up in a graffiti infested neighborhood where graffiti art is part of the landscape, garages are thrown everywhere on the street and people in the neighborhood no longer want to live there anymore. Sometimes I'm afraid to go home after dark because there are so many gangsters hanging outside of the store across the street from my house.
Drunk people get into arguments and fights often breaks out.
I don't think anyone would like to live in a neighborhood like the one I lived in for ten years. Fortunately my family were able to move away from this decomposing neighborhood. Many people discredit graffiti because it defaces public and private properties. The city of San Francisco spends more than a million dollars each year trying to get rid of graffiti. The city's Department of Public Works has already undertaken a huge and growing effort to combat graffiti.