Authorized murals and street art routinely being defaced by vandals in San Francisco . Some of best murals in historic Mission District have been ruined . Now , however , a rolling population of taggers has been wreaking havoc on many of the best murals , by hurriedly spray-painting initials , names , words , acronyms and other lettering across the majestic urban displays . `` Its war '' declared one tagger after an artist attempted to paint over his tag . ` The city has a history of vandalism, but the recent spate is particularly shocking because it was so well planned out.
Authorized murals and street art routinely being defaced by vandals in San Francisco . Some of best murals in historic Mission District have been ruined . `` Its war '' declared one tagger after an artist attempted to paint over his tag . ` The city has a history of vandalism, but the recent spate is particularly shocking because it was so well planned out.