Metro

De Blasio wants judge to toss cop union challenge to profiling law

Mayor Bill de Blasio said the police unions’ legal challenge to a law making it easier to sue cops for racial profiling is destined for failure — and asked a Manhattan judge to toss the case.

“Their complaints should be dismissed because the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the Sergeants Benevolent Association have not demonstrated any concrete, particularized harm to their members,” the mayor said in court papers filed earlier this week.

The associations “cannot demonstrate that their challenge is likely to succeed,” he adds.

Ed Mullins, head of the SBA, chalked the move up to de Blasio’s governing naiveté.

“I understand that the mayor is new to his position and most likely has not fully digested the duties and role of the NYPD,” Mullins said.

“Bill de Blasio was elected mayor and not appointed [to be] a Supreme Court justice. Ultimately it is up to an experienced judge to make this decision.”

Cops argue the controversial law will have a chilling effect on their ability to perform legitimate stop-and-frisk searches.

But the mayor counters that since the measure was enacted several months ago “the effects of the law on the unions’ members, if any, should be apparent.”

He calls those effects “imagined,” and brushed off affidavits by union officials who are not “actively engaged in day-to-day patrol activities.”

PBA President Pat Lynch said the “misguided law … penalizes our members — NYC police officers — and the public rather than addressing bad policies.”

“The administration has expressed its desire to change the policies that led to issues in our communities, eliminating the need for the law in the first place,” Lynch said.

He vowed to pursue the case.