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WASHINGTON (AP) - Want to cleanse your city of graffiti? Just go to the top. Responding to a constituent's complaint, Mayor Anthony Williams swapped his trademark bow tie and business suit for work boots, coveralls and gloves and helped get rid of blue, gray and black paint scrawled on the rear walls in a downtown alley.
"Once the little crimes start going unnoticed, they mushroom into bigger crimes," Williams explained Tuesday, when questioned about why such behind the scenes matters require his personal attention.
"If you don't take the graffiti off of the alleys and the walkways, not to mention the main streets, it sends the message that the community doesn't care," he said.
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