Mayor Gilmore warns women to stay out of Brandon Park after nightfall. “You can’t tell who is lurking behind trees and bushes,” he said.

This too, despite the fact that Brandon Park is well within the city limits, where citizens are supposed to have a reasonable measure of police protection.

Last summer when the “Gazette and Bulletin” exposed the shameful condition of things at Brandon Park, an officer was assigned there in plain clothes duty and had broken up the roughneck gangs who were making nights hideous in the parks, he was withdrawn.

As a result of this withdrawal the hoodlums have returned, and it is no longer safe for women to pass through the park after dark.

Hence the mayor’s warning.

But if Brandon Park is as bad as the mayor says it is, why does he not have it cleaned up?

The park is a gift to the people of Williamsport. Abuses that have been committed there in the past year are a disgrace to the city and ought to be stopped.

Make Brandon Park safe for women. It is ridiculous to ask women returning to their homes at night in the northern part of the city to detour around Brandon Park.