Rescue the trafficked women of ‘the Blade’ – Latest News
Brutal pimps victimize women continuously in the Penn Track open-air intercourse market; human trafficking is a day by day affair . . . and City Hall’s response is to have its tiny Office of Community Safety discuss with the Brooklyn DA’s Office about “approaches that will deliver durable solutions.”
That was the remark Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s people supplied for Megan Palin’s Post exposé on “the Blade” blocks of East New York.
It is grim studying certainly.
The NYPD sex-crimes unit and the FBI not too long ago took down one infamous pimp: Omari “Prince” Scott, sentenced to 50 years for a host of crimes final month; two others face severe prices.
But many more stay in the streets round Pennsylvania Avenue, operating strings of next-to-naked prostitutes — every renting her physique for as little as $85 a trick to make a “quota” of maybe $1,000 a night time for the pimp who holds her in de facto slavery.
“Leaving sounds easy until you think about it,” one Penn Track sufferer instructed 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 intercourse trafficking amid this summer time’s World Cup, rescuing 43 suspected victims and arresting some alleged traffickers.
But it doesn’t attempt to shut down the Track market; it solely posts officers in the space to attempt to spot underage and trafficking victims, after which . . . join them with companies that might help.
Its Human Trafficking Squad has additionally performed 4 sweeping “outreach operations” alongside the Penn Track this 12 months, a division spokesman instructed The Post.
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That hands-off coverage predates the Mamdani mayoralty, and no change is in fast sight.
The mayor says he opposes legalizing “sex work,” although he beforehand backed “full decriminalization,” which eases up on pimps and johns as nicely their victims.
Yet his spokefolx say his “administration takes human trafficking, coercion, and exploitation extremely seriously,” and his favored strategy “is one that deploys the full range of city resources to keep people safe and hold those responsible for trafficking and exploitation accountable.”
That may simply justify a severe crackdown, with police and social staff, to rescue the women now being victimized day-after-day in “the Blade”: How about it, Mr. Mayor?
