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Residents gathered for a "Walk Against Rape" through the streets of South Ozone Park in an effort to raise awareness about what they say is a rise in the number of sex attacks in the area.

"The women in the community within blocks of my business have been raped," said local business owner and walker Shauwana Dill-Darby.

"If one woman is raped, if your mother or aunt is raped it's just like my mother or aunt being raped,” said Ruben Wills, executive director of New York For Life and the walk's organizer. “And until we unify and understand that we will never bring these people to justice. They only prey on communities they feel that are un-unified or communities they feel are weak."

"I have a wife, I have a daughter, I have some sisters," said the Reverend Darryl Frazier, another walker. "I have a mother and I also have the women of my church and so I think it's important that I come out and let them know that I care."

Walkers felt the local police department needs to make more of an effort to prevent more attacks.

"What we know is our women are under siege here in southeast Queens,” said Marquez Claxton of 100 Blacks In Law Enforcement Who Care. “What we know is there's been an improper or insufficient response by the police department and other city agencies to deal with that."

Police say they have made twelve arrests for rape so far this year in the 103rd Precinct and the subject of a rape pattern there remains the focus of intense NYPD activity.