Times Square Predators

With the grabby Hulks and the marauding Minnie Mouses preying even more outrageously than the unruly

desnudas, Times Square is plainly not the tourist-friendly space that Team de Blasio promised when it set up those Designated Activity Zones.

Can City Hall really just not be bothered to crack down?

The DAZs were supposed to provide order by restricting the roving busker-beggars, with cops ticketing transgressors and arresting the most aggressive. But in the first year, the NYPD has issued only 220 summonses — less than one a day.

Yet Post reporters strolling through the Crossroads of the World day after day witness one costumed menace after another grabbing passersby to demand attention (and then cash), mostly outside the zones that they’re supposed to stick to.

Times Square Alliance head Tim Tompkins is so furious that he’s willing to risk City Hall’s wrath to publicize the disorder. His staffers report that nine in 10 interactions involve the “performer” touching a civilian — pretty much the definition of aggressive panhandling.

That’s a crime, which in all other contexts the NYPD is driving down to everlower lows.

Some in law enforcement tell The Post that the Times Square problem is that most of the offenders are illegal immigrants, who are to be kept out of the justice system under Team de Blasio’s “sanctuary city” policy. Sounds crazy, but some

thing bizarre is going on when New York cops turn a blind eye to blatant lawbreaking.