Gothamist: Is the NYPD Spinning Prospect Park Crime?

wha

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:41:00 -0500

lol.. yeah, no spitting vitriol there.

robin

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:37:36 -0500

"When did Gothamist get all these trolls? I seem to remember an era when this was a nice, friendly blog, not a place to spit vitriol about public housing, of all fucking things, whenever anyone mentions crime or Brooklyn. Get a life!" I love the irony in that post.

Who are these morons?

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:14:00 -0500

When did Gothamist get all these trolls? I seem to remember an era when this was a nice, friendly blog, not a place to spit vitriol about public housing, of all fucking things, whenever anyone mentions crime or Brooklyn. Get a life!

l

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:08:36 -0500

Um, when you are walking your children through the park in the morning and you see men in the woods and condoms littering the pathways, public sex is not the greatest thing in the world. Maybe not as bad as getting mugged or robbed, sure, but not something that should be going on in a public park.

kb

Wed, 31 May 2006 11:47:29 -0500

dirt paths in wooded areas? isn't that what a park is all about? what is the purpose of the paths then? maybe we should just close the park altogether. 'throws up hands'

r

Wed, 31 May 2006 11:25:02 -0500

You could replace "housing for criminals" with "subsidies for major oil companies" and it would work just about the same. p.s. Public sex is a crime on par with robbery?

jaa

Wed, 31 May 2006 10:54:31 -0500

Is it weird that our government pays for housing for criminals in public housing? I mean we pay the taxes so we are vicariously paying for the roof over the criminals who rob us. Is that irony or what?

Beth

Wed, 31 May 2006 10:24:31 -0500

I was just in the park and saw a ton of cops--way more than two days ago--and a group was arresting two teenage boys. So they're responding to something, whether it's officially it's the Post article or not.

x

Wed, 31 May 2006 10:24:25 -0500

The problem is that police mostly patrol in cars on the main paths of the park where it is arguably safer to begin with. Only very occasionally do you see an officer on foot walking through the paths that cut through the woods where a lot of crime (robberies, drug use, public sex) takes place.

adam

Wed, 31 May 2006 10:12:19 -0500

Police patrolling the park? Nice, but wouldn't it be even more useful to patrol the public housing projects where the robbers live..