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Monday
Sep122011

FiPS Readers Weigh In On NYPD's reaction to the BK Attacker

Everyone's been talking about how the NYPD is (or isn't) going about handling this BK attacker sitch. City Councilman Brad Lander recently wrote a letter to the public regarding the string of attacks. He says, "Every day, women are attacked by men and too often their accounts are dismissed, downplayed, or not prosecuted. This indifference keeps victims silent, and attackers pray on that silence. We need to hold the police, the press, your politicians (yes, me too), and each other accountable, to take sexual assault seriously." As one commenter responded, "Now that is a community letter.  That last paragraph makes me want to hug him so hard."

A few people wrote in over the weekend and weighed in with their own thoughts on the matter. One recounts her Saturday night spent watching cops use their time and manpower ticketing cyclists and cars cutting through Prospect Park. The other suggest a way we may actually catch the BK attacker:

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