Curtis Sliwa calls for security cameras in Manhattan park where three women attacked

Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa on Friday urged the current mayor to “immediately” add surveillance cameras in the Upper Manhattan park where three women were recently attacked within about an hour.

“I’m calling immediately upon the mayor to allow for the use of the police surveillance cameras … so that we can somehow to try to manage the problems that is exploding in terms of vandalism, assaults, muggings and rapes and attempted rapes in the park system of New York City,” said Sliwa at a press conference in Inwood Park, where the trio of women were attacked Wednesday in broad daylight. “I ask this simple question of the Parks Department and Mayor [Bill] de Blasio — we have the technology available, we have police camera boxes at the ready. Why aren’t they being installed in the park system of New York City that in many instances become a haven for those who commit crimes and mug people?”