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.

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Never miss a story.That hands-off policy predates the Mamdani mayoralty, and no change is in immediate sight.

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