The Manhattan district attorney launched a social-media campaign Thursday to raise awareness of the voyeuristic crime of “upskirting” as warm weather approaches.
The DA’s office put anti-upskirting posters on Twitter and Facebook warning criminals they could face up to four years in prison and encouraging women to be on the lookout for creepy men with cameras.
One poster includes a male stick figure holding a cellphone by his waist as he stands in between two female stick figures.
The cellphone is circled in red and the text reads: “Report the incident to the NYPD.”
Another says: “When the temperature goes up, so do the number of arrests.”
In a three-day span this month, five perverts were busted for upskirting, court papers show. Ramjit Kumble, 48, was arrested March 11 in the Union Square subway station after he allegedly set his backpack in between a woman’s legs.
Cops recovered the backpack topped by what looked like a button — but which was actually a lens connected to the body of a camera, authorities say.
“This is a serious crime with serious consequences,” said DA Cyrus Vance Jr.
