City’s Wrong Priorities

New York may be a safe haven for shoplifters, subway shovers, gangbangers and illegal migrants, but park rangers are holding the line against pee-wee pee-pee.

Manhattan mom Michiko Sasaki got fined $50 for letting her 4-year-old son Kobe take an emergency leak when a Battery Park City public restroom was locked. Five or six cops pounced, demanding her ID.

This epitomizes the failure of New York. No, we’re not supporting public urination. But a mom doing her best amid a tot’s bathroom emergency is no threat to public order: That comes from the forces that put the toilet out of commission.

Parks and playgrounds across town are plagued by open-air drug dealing and public shooting-up, littered with needles and reeking of pot. Yet Parks Enforcement finds the time to issue a mom a $50 ticket, plainly because it feels safe getting tough with her.

Bad enough the city’s surrendering to disorder; must it declare war on “normies,” too?

Once again, the blame begins with progressives, who pushed through a 2021 law (which Gov. Hochul, sigh, signed) decriminalizing the sale and possession of drug paraphernalia — in effect, freeing illegal drug use of criminal and social consequences. NYPD cops soon got ordered to let druggies freely shoot up and share needles.

Cue the decline of public parks, echoing the soaring of subway disorder after the establishment declared fare-beating not worth the trouble to enforce.

Don’t worry: The MTA will make up for that lost revenue via congestion-pricing tolls — yet another assault on normies.

“Broken Windows” policing made this town the safest big city in America, but then the progressives took power, siding with the window-breakers and against law-abiding New Yorkers.

It’s past time to again make New York orderly for everyone — and you don’t start by cracking down on 4-year-olds.