No Apologies Needed, Mike

Predictably, Mike Bloomberg is facing calls for him to renounce yet more of his mayoral legacy. The latest: Activists want a mea culpa for the NYPD’s “Muslim mapping” project.

By rights, Bloomy should boast about cops’ anti-terror work on his watch. But the Democratic primaries are all about appeasing the party’s ideological extremes.

Bloomberg needs to “disavow this program,” insists Muslim Advocates chief Farhana Khera. He should “see the error of his ways and apologize,” says Ahmed Mohamed of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing case). Columns at The Atlantic and Daily Beast also blasted the program.

Bloomberg became mayor soon after 9/11, when the jihadi threat was a huge worry. His NYPD innovated on a host of fronts to successfully prevent new terror attacks; surveillance programs contributed heavily to that success.

Critics claim Muslims were “victims,” yet how? Basically, cops (mainly Muslims themselves) merely went to Muslim areas to become more familiar with them and gain background info for future investigations or leads on possible attacks.

Despite three lawsuits, no court ever found fault with the program, and the NYPD never admitted to any wrongdoing, even in settlements pushed by Mayor de Blasio after he won on an cop-bashing platform.

In one case, a judge found plaintiffs failed to show “they were targeted solely because of their religion.” The “more likely explanation for the surveillance was to locate budding terrorist conspiracies,” he said. And even if plaintiffs could show “injury,” it couldn’t be “fairly” traced to the city.

Years after 9/11, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton scrapped the program, finding other ways to achieve the same goals. But the NYPD under Bloomberg and Commissioner Ray Kelly kept New York safe at a critical time — without crossing any lines.

It’s cause to be proud, not sorry.