#Levin, Rosenthal would harm public, homeless with anti-cop bill

In yet another triumph of ideology over common sense and basic decency, City Council members Stephen Levin and Helen Rosenthal are pushing a bill to ban cops from helping the homeless.

This, after defunding the NYPD’s Homeless Outreach unit led to thousands of calls to assist these unfortunates going unaddressed: The city Department of Homeless Services failed to step up, as Mayor Bill de Blasio imagined it would.

In their last active month, the unit’s 86 cops left 79 calls unresolved. The next month saw a 550 percent jump, to 437 cases closed without action. In the past five months, the city has ignored a total of nearly 2,500 calls to 311 about the homeless.

De Blasio, to his credit, thinks Levin and Rosenthal are off-base — as do police unions and homeless advocacy groups. The simple fact is that some homeless are dangerous, and social workers too often won’t do outreach without cops helping. Outlawing police intervention thus jeopardizes not only public safety, but the safety of the homeless, too.

Consider it fresh proof that anti-cop obsessives don’t actually care about real people.