Cincinnati takes Shoefiti Seriously: Includes Video of Local News Story
A police officer in Cincinnati is doing something about shoefiti in his town (Link to WCPO transcript and the video news story ):
neighborhood? It has become an all too common site in Cincinnati and
that has a lot of neighbors upset.
“The kind of understood meaning is that [the shoes indicate] there
are drugs for sale in the area,” said District Four Cincinnati Police
Officer Colin Vaughn.
Vaughn said he finds himself too often on “shoe patrol” in
Walnut Hills. Vaughn said he compiles a list of shoe locations and then
calls the city, Cinergy or Time Warner Cable to cut them down.
Another person bringing up the drug connection. This time a cop, but still falling short of hard evidence making the direct connection.
The easier issue to address is the correlation shoefiti has with blight. The president of the Walnut Hills neighborhood council, Kathy Atkinson, provides a perfect explanation of why this is worth addressing:
neighborhood as a less than livable place, then we all need to take
responsibility for that and do something about it,” Atkinson said. “If
those things are given attention and they’re improved then that tells
people, or at least people have the feeling that the neighborhood is
improving.”
That’s really nails it. It doesn’t matter why they’re there. As long as people correlate them with problematic neighborhoods, there is plenty of justification to snip them.
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