Cop gets up

Here at ILG we love to see graffiti go new ways. So the following video was received with great joy at our HQ, it turns out that even police officers in the UK are doing murals these days.

Now we are waiting for the first police wholecar to roll out of a yard...

Wondering about a video

This video made me wonder about two things.
1. Do the West Midlands Police in the UK really think that this video will help prevent graffiti?
2. What sell-out writers did the graffiti at the very end of this video?
Answers welcomed in the comments section.

Irish police allows graffiti

In Dublin, Ireland, the local police called Garda, have given permission for people to paint around the building site of a new policestation. More info here.

Buffing, databases and pigs

Suisse news broadcast featuring liveactions, buffing, graffiti databases, vandalsquads and more...

Fichés, scannés, digitalisés, les taggeurs sont cernés
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Shepard Fairey busted!

Creating the most widely used poster of Obama today wasnt enough to hold Shepard Fairey out of jail for a night. Hear his own story of what went down in Denver a few weeks ago during the Democratic Convention.

Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do ?

What you gonna do when the Harrogate Police Graffiti Patrol come for you on their bikes with their helmets and shorts?

The Utah madness continue

In the babylonian case against Utah in NYC, antigraffiti witch Anne Swanson was quoted yesterday: "The terrorist taggers the city and private citizens mop up after are young people who think it’s a cool thing to do and just don’t think about the rest of us. They have no developed social conscience,” said Swanson, who has a degree in fine art. Read the rest here.

Boston Vandal Squad on the news

Want to know how the two most prolific Vandal Squad cops in Boston look like?
Well, you are in luck, as both donutlovers have gone on national TV shows and shown their faces.
Here we have the most active at the moment, Detective Bill KelleyAnd here we have old Nancy O'Loughlin

And here you can check out a recent Greater Boston TV show, featuring Kelley and anti-graffiti witch Anne Swanson talking on the case against Utah here.

Loose the hat

The Khallan releaseparty in Copenhagen this weekend turned into a big streetparty as expected. The fun topped when the Danish National TV decided to do an unrelated live interview with a policeofficer about the ongoing gunviolence in the city on the same spot.

After the live interview was ruined, pissed off policeofficers frisked about 150 people in the area without finding the hat...

Fight the power in Finland!

27 persons arrested by confrontative police in Helsinki, Finland at a Pro-Graffiti demonstration. While the city hosts an anti-graffiti convention, closed off for the public and the press, its good to see more than 500 people demonstrating against this mad policy and figthing the power. More info here and here.

Stocks rising downunder.

Donut stocks are going up in Australia, after the formation of a new Vandal Squad in Brisbane. More info here.

More trouble for Utah

As previously reported here at ILoveGraffiti, American authorities are taking things to a new extreme in the case against Utah. Now it seems that the Boston vandal squad wants to cause even more problems for her, as reported here in this nasty article no writer would want written about them... We wish Utah the best of luck in all this madness, stay strong and fight the power!

Cop cars

We all know cops keep records on graffiti and writers. Well, here is a site the keeps records on cops. Check out what a lot of different Danish cop cars and equipment look like, especially the different undercover cars... All at the 10-20 website.
We see them rolling, we hatin'...

Brim vs MTA Vandal Squad 1984

Cool clip from the mid 80s featuring Brim and some of the MTA Vandal Squad.

Tropa de Elite

I went to the cinema last night, for the first time in years. On the menu was the critically acclaimed brazillian movie Tropa de Elite. The most talked about Brazilian film since Fernando Meirelles’ Oscar nominated masterpiece City of Gods. The director of Tropa de Elite, Jose Padilha, has already scoped the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival with this extremely violent and moving work based on semi-fictional accounts of Rio de Janeiro’s strategic para-military police force back in 1997, just before the visit of the Pope to Brazil. The film is an in depth exploration of want it takes to become a member of BOPE, or Rio’s Special Police Operation Battalion. It is also an exposé of systemic corruption within Rio’s police forces. Tropa de Elite graphically depicts what many of us in Europe had already thought about the Brazilian authorities attitude towards policing in the slums of Rio – they train, arm to the teeth, and unleash death squads into Rio’s poor and lawless favelas. The central police character coldly explains how BOPE, the ‘men in black enter the favela to kill – never to die’. Tropa de Elite is no ordinary cops and robbers’ film - it is a civil war film. It’s a must see movie especially for the fans of City of Gods, or anyone who has any real serious interest in all things Brazilian.

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