The Administration’s misguided decision to expand the New York City Police Department’s “Quality of Life” teams to all five boroughs is deeply troubling and dangerous.

The expansion doubles down on the failed punitive policies of the past that criminalize low-income New Yorkers — particularly people of color and youth, including immigrants — rather than providing real investment in housing, mental health care and community resources.

This type of enforcement doesn’t make our city safer; it targets everyday New Yorkers struggling to survive in an increasingly unaffordable city and saddles them with the collateral consequences of an arrest record, impeding access to housing, education and critical services.

At a time when vulnerable immigrant New Yorkers already live under constant th

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