The Brooklyn Paper has been running a series about the strange and grizzly goings-on in Prospect Park. There’s been blood on the lake shoreline, the slaying of turtles, the dumping of animal entrails,  dozens of chicken heads found, a dead duck, opposum and a swan It’s disgusting. What is going on? Here’s an excerpt from an editorial in the Brooklyn Paper:

None of these incidents would have come to light without the efforts of a small band of regular park-goers, who have adopted the swans and other waterfowl. Those visitors have informed the press, the Parks Department, the NYPD and their local elected officials — but only the local media seem to care.

If murder, blood, arson and death was stalking Central Park, it would be an international outrage. Mayor Bloomberg would summon his police commissioner to City Hall and demand accountability. Cops would be staked out. Waterfowl would be treated.

In short, there would be action.

But in Prospect Park? Nothing.

One problem is that operation of the park itself is largely parceled out to the Prospect Park Alliance, which is certainly a worthy agency, but one that has a vested interest in making sure that bad news about the park is kept quiet, lest a main source of revenue — donations from wealthy residents around the park — dry up.