Gothamist: Prospect Park Attack Update

Jen

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:53:12 -0500

I know, it's crazy that people do slip through the system. I really don't like to be ultra militant, but when I hear these stories, coupled with my growing belief that sometimes it is the small things (groping, petty theft) that lead to bigger crimes, a three strikes law sounds good.

megnut

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:48:07 -0500

It's enough to make you wish NY had one of those "three strikes and you're out" laws like CA. This is one case where locking him up for the rest of his life seems like a good idea.

Gene

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:21:30 -0500

The Times also reported that she is now blind in one eye after having it punched twelve times. Post columnist Andrea Peyser say that Brooklyn residents nearby feel that had this happened in Central Park or even Union Square Park for that matter, it would have provoked outrage and a stepped-up police response. In Brooklyn, she says "At noon yesterday, exactly 24 hours after the crime, just a single, lonely cop car sat soggy vigil inside the park's columned Third Street entrance, inches from the scene of the already nearly forgotten attack." The Post sees a "bleak prospect for besieged Brooklynites."