The social campaign “My city, our common good” has begun. Its aim is to encourage residents to respond to and report all acts of vandalism. The campaign is being carried out by the Municipal Police and the County Police Headquarters in cooperation with BOK-MCC. As part of the campaign, slogans from the initiative and photographs of public-use facilities in good condition and after being damaged will be displayed on the billboard by Forum Cinema.
Municipal police officers and police officers are encouraging cooperation so that, together, they can combat the senseless destruction of common property, such as benches, bus shelters and play equipment in children’s playgrounds. Officers are asking and encouraging residents to respond as quickly as possible and inform the police (tel. 112 and 997) or the Municipal Police (75-644-79-90) about acts of vandalism.
Our pages publish information about damage caused by vandals. Our readers also report it: Vandals demolished a bus stop, Vandals damaged a lamp near BOK-MCC, Vandals caught on surveillance footage
All such incidents always outrage residents, who know perfectly well which parts of the city and when are regularly visited by vandals. They write about it on our forum, suggesting punishments for people who damage property.
“Such things happen almost every week on Friday-to-Saturday and Saturday-to-Sunday nights in the area of Zgorzelecka and Łokietka streets. The police and the Municipal Police know perfectly well that this is the area around the night shop and the route from Imperium to the city center,” writes one reader. “The holidays are approaching, and once again every night the square at the intersection of Łokietka and Zgorzelecka will fill with young delinquents who, after a few beers, want to demonstrate their ‘strength’ and ‘ingenuity’ to their friends on equipment that belongs to all of us (cars, benches, bins, lights, road signs, fences, etc.).”
Another reader also complains on the forum: “I live on Staszica Street, and every weekend it is the same. On Sunday in the middle of the night or early in the morning, hordes of youngsters return from discos and yell at the top of their lungs throughout the entire neighborhood. Beer cans and bottles are strewn across the streets and sidewalks! It won’t be long before they start smashing people’s windows for fun.”
Internet users suggest ways of punishing vandals and write: “Catch them and lock them up for five years. Let them wreck something at home instead of in a new, beautiful building.” “No prison,” appeals another internet user. “Only community service assigned by a judge. Then the smart-alecks back down, because they’re embarrassed in front of their friends.” “Not prison, but let their mother, father or the vandal themselves pay,” another reader joins the discussion.
“Do as some people suggest: make them perform 1,000 hours of community service with the words ‘I am a vandal’ on their backs, or have them work 12 hours a day for an entire month—that way they will clean up all of Bolesławiec,” advises an Istotne.pl portal user in conclusion.
(information: K.Chalewicz-SM/G. Hanaf)