Police Are Drawing a Bead on Graffiti Artists. By Ellen Barry . June 6, 2006 12 AM PT . ... Arrests for graffiti are up sharply: 2,585 in 2005, more than double the number from 2004, ...

But a call to the NYPD revealed that there’s a lot of gray area. (UPDATE: Gallagher arrested for chalk drawing. [nydailynews.com]) “According the New York penal law, graffiti is the etching, painting, ...