Catching taggers

With complaints about graffiti rising, a Los Angeles city panel called Monday for expansion of a pilot program to install more video cameras across the city to capture taggers on tape and aid in their arrest. Daily News.

The City Council's Public Safety Committee asked for a report on how to fund the program and work with neighborhood councils to identify the worst locations in the city.

Since 2000, the city has had 60 cameras operating at various sites under a program run by the Office of Community Beautification under the Board of Public Works.