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Following up on crimes from over a year and a half ago, a 46 year-old man pleaded guilty yesterday to raping an elderly woman and beating another woman in Prospect Park in 2003. The Post reports that Bennie Hogan, whose crimes span over 30 years, accepted a plea that would keep him behind bars for 25 years. It turns out Hogan had been released from jail after serving time for "molesting a woman on a subway" when he first raped a 67 year-old woman in August 2003. Then he attacked and attempted to rape a 33 year-old woman in September 2003 (which Gothamist remembers) before a police man stopped the attack.
There was a feeling that there was a "crime wave" in Prospect Park at the end of 2003; can any Slopers tell us if the Park has gotten safer?
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Prospect Park doesn't feel dangerous to me, but maybe only because there are always people around. Still, who would have expected that 2003 attack on 3rd St. at noon? Or all the recent muggings in Park Slope in broad daylight? Or, for that matter, the Central Park mugging of a mom beside her baby carriage? I guess it's just best to never let your guard down.
NYPD patrol cars have been slowly cruising the streets in that neighborhood at night with their lights flashing as if to say "Cops here; don't commit any crimes; your streets are safe." It's an interesting approach to making people aware of police presence. Unlike in Manhattan, I've never seen a cop on foot patrol in P/S.
Prospect park is safe enough. Although there are creeps up on the hills. While running we have noticed a lone diddler exposing himself up on a hill. Not a threat - but yuck.
Das Park has never felt unsafe to me. Never got the impression there was a crime wave -- just a few isolated highly upsetting incidents. There are indeed a few nooks where the occasional creepy mccreep hangs out, but they appear largely harmless.
a group of teens threw a bottle at me while cycling the park loop weds nite ~8 PM. That's not very nice. You can't just go throwing s--t at peoples.
There's defintely more of a "police presence" than there used to be, although that just means there's two guys sitting in a squad car drinking coffee, which I suppose does something to deter crime. Oh and the guy who used to huff spray paint and drink 40s in broad daylight on a benchby the pavillion hasn't been around lately.
"...can any Slopers tell us if the Park has gotten safer?"
Sorry to point out the obvious, but there are other neighborhoods adjacent to Prospect Park.