New York police refused to catch Banksy

Despite the negative attitude to the work of Banksy, the mayor of the mayor of the present-york Michael Bloomberg, who believes that Graffiti is damaged by public property, the New York police does not intend to search for the artist.

The police say that not a single complaint from the city residents received, CNN reports. In particular, the owners of the houses that he painted did not complain about Banksy. Thus, the recent message of the New York Post newspaper is refuted that the police were going to find and detain him.

Since October 1, Banksy holds a monthly residence in New York under the name “Better outside” ( Better Out That in). Almost every day, his new graffiti appears in the city, in the central park he made a sale of his work under the guise of cheap copies.

Last week, Bloomberg said that, in his opinion, the painting of private or public property is not art, “and if art, then in any case illegal” and instructed the Department of Culture of New York to understand this matter.

Since 2010, on the initiative of Michael Bloomberg and the police commissar of New York Raymond Kelly in the city, an active fight against graffiti has been conducted, illegal images are quickly erased, and educational work has been carried out with graffitors. “What was once considered a trifle, the entertainment of a pile of teenagers, has now grew into an epidemic of a national scale, which brings billion damage annually,” the official statement on the New York police website says. It also indicates that graffiti is vandalism, and that such criminal activity is punishable by prison, fines or public work.