Graffiti Artist Speaks to Police About Building Bridges

Inspector Bryce Evans is one of the officers in charge of 14 Division Toronto Police Service. He has been very supportive of the efforts of the Argos Foundation Stop the Violence in their efforts to build bridges between youth and the police. In this video he speaks to Kalmplex, a local graffiti artist. Kalmplex is standing in front of a corner piece of the BMX Bike park that the Argos Foundation Stop the Violence are supporting in conjunction with Toronto Crime Stoppers and the City of Toronto Parks Forestry and Recreation Department. Kalmplex painted a mural on this piece with positive messaging at the Style in Progress graffiti event. Inspector Evans is very supportive of graffiti artists like Kalmplex, who are intent on building community together. This video shows the start of a dialogue between Kalmplex and Inspector Evans. Graffiti events such as Style in Progress are legal as long as the permission of the property owner is obtained. Vandalism graffiti is a concern, as there is a small percentage of the graffiti community in Toronto who are intent on vandalism, regardless of any process that is implemented by anyone. A planned strategy to police events in conjunction with the event organizers is recommended. Community CAVE (www.communitycave.com ) are in the process of documenting best practices in this regard. This BMX bike park will be part of the 2007 Grey Cup celebrations in Toronto during the month of November, 2007.

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• graffiti
• Toronto
• Police
• BMX
• Park
• Community
• CAVE

[drunkCLOWN210]

I wish all cops could be normal

[DynastyLuminous45]

Why the fuck you getting thumbs down, 2 major reasons why the June 12th is fucking bullshit:

Reason 1: If you're a real writer, EVERYDAY IS GO BOMB DAY.

Reason 2: Cops watch youtube, thanks for screwing it up for people who wanna bomb on june 12th, no doubt there will be more surveillance on june 12th now.

Fuck the Go Bomb Day bullshit, it's either Go Bomb Life or No Go Bomb At All.

[209BluntSmoker]

respect to the cool cops an the cops dat smoke weed fuck the pics

[siulserdnalagred]

0:33 Obey rules!

[ekojk1242]

In Canada Graffiti is not taken so seriously.

[idoGutman22]

@GaitRock think that you will do graffity, and some cop walks by, and does nothing. not fun

[c2daj2dat]

i like the hat he put on her better! should be a little bit bigger tho...

[c2daj2dat]

that chick can get it!...ROUGH!!  cool cop, last time i saw one of those was on superbad!!

[mrphunghii]

nice guy

[GaitRock]

@idoGutman22 toy

[lfh100]

theres an obey poster there



[BOUR2TL]

@Renydaboxer theyre all the same