A mission for Mamdani: Rescue the trafficked women of ‘the Blade’

Brutal pimps victimize women constantly in the Penn Track open-air sex market; human trafficking is a daily affair . . . and City Hall’s response is to have its tiny Office of Community Safety talk with the Brooklyn DA’s Office about “approaches that will deliver durable solutions.”

That was the comment Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s people provided for Megan Palin’s Post exposé on “the Blade” blocks of East New York.

It is grim reading indeed.

The NYPD sex-crimes unit and the FBI recently took down one notorious pimp: Omari “Prince” Scott, sentenced to 50 years for a host of crimes last month; two others face serious charges.

But many more remain in the streets around Pennsylvania Avenue, running strings of next-to-naked prostitutes — each renting her body for as little as $85 a trick to make a “quota” of perhaps $1,000 a night for the pimp who holds her in de facto slavery.

“Leaving sounds easy until you think about it,” one Penn Track victim told The Post. “You got no money — he got it all. You got no phone — it’s in his name. Where you gonna go?”

The NYPD did some citywide cracking down on prostitution-related sex trafficking amid this summer’s World Cup, rescuing 43 suspected victims and arresting some alleged traffickers.

But it doesn’t try to shut down the Track market; it only posts officers in the area to try to spot underage and trafficking victims, and then . . . connect them with services that could help.

Its Human Trafficking Squad has also done four sweeping “outreach operations” along the Penn Track this year, a department spokesman told The Post.

That hands-off policy predates the Mamdani mayoralty, and no change is in immediate sight.

The mayor says he opposes legalizing “sex work,” though he previously backed “full decriminalization,” which eases up on pimps and johns as well their victims.

Yet his spokefolx say his “administration takes human trafficking, coercion, and exploitation extremely seriously,” and his favored approach “is one that deploys the full range of city resources to keep people safe and hold those responsible for trafficking and exploitation accountable.”

That could easily justify a serious crackdown, with police and social workers, to rescue the women now being victimized every day in “the Blade”: How about it, Mr. Mayor?

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