Volunteers Unite to Fight Graffiti
Once a month, a handful of volunteers with an anti-crime group meet at a Northridge church to train people how to fight and remove graffiti.
The group is part of Mad About Rising Crime, or MARC, which was created in 1991 by the parents of a teenage murder victim.
“The biggest compliment I get is there isn’t any graffiti in the West San Fernando Valley anymore,” said John Scott, co-chairman of the MARC-Out Graffiti program. “There is, but it is being taken down.”
Scott, who joined the group in 1993 after his 15-year-old son was robbed a block from their Northridge home, helped develop the program.
“I took the rage and turned it around and started getting involved,” said Scott.
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