Sycamore Grove Bandshell Defaced—Again

A little more than four months after gang-related tags appeared on the Sycamore Grove Park bandshell, another ugly scrawl is back there again, covering the entire width of the bandshell’s shutter, a post-Halloween reminder that vandalism of public property remains one of the neighborhood’s creepiest realities. 

Last time around, it took about a week for anti-graffiti crews to clean up the mess after Councilmember Gil Cedillo’s staff responded, on his very first day in the CD 1 office, to e-mails from a Highland Park resident who is the neighborhood’s unofficial watchdog for graffiti and abandoned furniture.

And while the crews will surely paint over the tags soon enough, it will only be a matter of time before their band-aid fix will be needed again. So, might it be time for Cedillo’s office, with the cooperation of Northeast LAPD perhaps, to think about installing surveillance cameras around the bandshell?

Related: Graffiti Alert for Gil Cedillo