NYPD brass: Ban pervs from subway

The city’s top cops are done playing games with creeps who regularly commit sex crimes on the subway.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea and Transit Chief Edward Delatorre held a press conference Wednesday to push for a proposal that would ban recidivist pervs from the city’s transit system.

“We need to make sure we turn this momentum, this action into something concrete,” said Shea. “This is not individuals riding the subway, this is individuals that hunt on the subway.”

The presser came a day after Gov. Cuomo threw his support behind a subway ban for pervs, hours after Delatorre and NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill did the same during testimony at a City Council Public Safety Committee meeting.

MTA officials have long held that they do not have the authority to implement a ban on sex offenders, and agency President Pat Foye said Tuesday he’d be open to working with Cuomo and the state Legislature to put one into law.

No one is currently banned from the subway, but Shea floated the idea of working with prosecutors and the MTA to issue repeat perpetrators some type of notice barring them from the system after multiple offenses.

Some City Council members criticized the approach of implementing a subway ban, noting that it could act as a precedent to ban people for other crimes like fare evasion.

Their announcement came just hours after members of a transit task force busted a 36-year-old man on charges he groped a 15-yearold girl on a downtown No. 4 train.

The suspect, John Campos, allegedly molested the teen as she rode an express train 42nd St. to Union Square just before 8:30 a.m., cops said. She told police what happened, and officers caught him at Chambers and Centre Sts., by the Brooklyn Bridge train strop.

He’s charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse and child endangerment.