Al Sharpton helped create the crime crisis he claims he’s trying to solve

There’s a strange phenomenon in which about 100 arson arrests a year are of firefighters, creating the circumstance where they can receive adulation for extinguishing the chaos they manufactured.

While that’s a more intentional act, there’s a similar case of a person avoiding full responsibility for the carnage he helped create and wanting to be the hero leading the charge to fight the blaze: Al Sharpton.

The activist gathered New York’s top black elected officials — including Mayor Eric Adams, Attorney General Letitia James, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie — at his National Action Network Harlem HQ this month for a closed-door discussion of public-safety and criminal-justice issues.

And he publicly called on those leaders and others to do something after a Siena College poll released Monday found that 93% of New Yorkers — the number was virtually the same among all races — consider crime a serious problem in the state.

“The results of the latest Siena poll won’t come as a surprise to anyone who lives and works in a Black or Brown community. Many of us have spent the better part of a year calling for our criminal justice system to be fine-tuned,” Sharpton stated Monday. “Addressing public safety is a question of how, not if, which is why I convened New Yo

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