By Selwyn Duke

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” Or maybe Bill de Blasio could just say, “What, me worry?” But what the former Sandinista supporter and now esteemed New York City mayor did say, on Wednesday, as Big Apple crime surges, is that “for seven years, we have made this city safer and safer.”

To prove this wasn’t just a momentary loss of sanity, de Blasio the next day followed up by boasting that “we now have fewer people in our jails than any time since WWII, and we are safer for it and better for it.” 

For the record, shootings last week soared 253 percent over the same 2019 week; burglaries and rapes are up, too.

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