#Mayoral candidates offer crime prevention plans as de Blasio comes up short

Mayor de Blasio seems to have few solutions to combat the spree of shootings rocking the city this summer, but several of his would-be successors offered detailed plans including reinstating the NYPD’s undercover anti-crime unit that was disbanded in response to demands by anti-police activists.

Following weeks of gun violence de Blasio finally rolled out a limited approach to curbing crime in central Brooklyn Wednesday.

So The Post asked Democratic and Republican candidates for the 2021 mayoral race what they’d do to stem the bloodshed if they led City Hall.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former cop and leading Democratic candidate for mayor, presented to The Post the most comprehensive vision — a detailed, seven-point plan.

Number one on his agenda is to “re-institute the street-crime unit the right way by replacing overly aggressive officers with cops more suited for high-difficulty police work.”

“Moving forward on police reform does not mean we have to move backward on public safety. The problem with the precinct level anti-crime unit wasn’t the strategy behind it — it was some of the officers in it,” he said.

Additionally, Adams would “shift detectives and other officers from low-crime areas to crime hot-spots when surges occur.”

Another Democratic hopeful, the city’s former Commissioner for Veterans Services Gen. Loree Sutton, would also put the anti-crime cops back on the streets.

“Restore the plainclothes unit responsible for removing illegal firearms in our communities,” the retired Army general said about what she would do in de Blasio’s shoes.

Republican contender and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa would not only bring back the anti-crime unit, he’d double its size from 600 to 1,200 officers.

“These cops are specialists who know the streets and know where the gangbangers involved in the shootings are. They can intervene and prevent retaliatory shootings,” Sliwa said.

Fellow GOP candidate and supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis agreed with Sliwa, Sutton and Adams about restoring the plainclothes patrol that was based out of precincts and public housing developments.

But new data shows gun-charge arrests declined after Shea dissolved the patrol.

Between June 15 and July 12, police collared 89 people on gun charges — down from 270 last year during the same period. The NYPD logged 321 arrests between May 18 and June 14, up from 287 last year.

Arrests plummeted by 67 percent, with gun charges cut in half, during the 28-day span starting on June 15 — the same day the unit was disbanded — through July 12.

Gun arrests were up more than 11 percent for the month and up 8 percent for the year in the weeks before the unit was removed.