The women of Brooklyn aren't impressed. Following ten unsolved sexual assaults in the area, the New York Police Department (NYPD) stopped several women on the street, warning them they were dressing provocatively.
"[An officer] pointed at my outfit and said, 'Don't you think your shorts are a little short?'" a woman, identified only as Lauren, told the Wall Street Journal.
Two others, wearing dresses, were also stopped and told they were showing "a lot of skin" and that such wardrobe choices would give the suspect think he had "easy access."
The officer went on to tell one woman: "You're exactly the kind of girl this guy is targeting."
Not surprisingly, more than a few people have a problem with the NYPD over the incident.
"Officers are not telling women what not to wear -- there's a TV series that does that," quipped NYPD spokesman, Paul Browne.
Browne added that police were only acting with the best of intentions. "They are simply pointing out that as part of the pattern involving one or more men that the assailant(s) have targeted women wearing skirts."
Do you think police were right to warn the women in the area or were they overstepping the mark?
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