NYPD takes center stage in London mayor’s race

The NYPD has become a hot topic in the mayor’s race — in London.

Across the pond, insurgent candidates are looking to the fabled New York police force as a model for curbing violent crime — which has exploded under the leadership of current London Mayor Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party. “Crime is on everyone’s mind in London. London used to be such a safe city,“ Shaun Bailey, a member of the London Assembly and the Conservative Party candidate for mayor, told The Post. “If you look at what happened [in NYC] in the ’90s, your mayors backed the police to make changes they needed to do and that’s something I really will be doing.