BOSTON — Forget the “safest city in America” fairytale — Boston’s real safety net is a handful of cops quietly helping ICE while Mayor Michelle Wu looks the other way.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons dropped the bombshell on the Howie Carr Show: Boston Police officers are feeding federal agents tips on violent offenders even though City Hall bans it.

“They can’t cooperate openly out of fear of getting in trouble or getting fired,” Lyons said. “But they’re helping us anyway.”

Call them what you want — rebels, mutineers, or, yes, hero cops.

The blue wall of quiet defiance

Wu struts on stage, preaching sanctuary values and vowing Boston will never bow to Trump. But in the streets, her own force is staging a shadow rebellion.

Cops are tipping off ICE about predators getting released, handing leads to federal agents, and doing it all under the radar. It’s a secret alliance: the thin blue line versus the woke mayor.

They know the monsters lurking in Boston’s neighborhoods — and they’re not waiting for Wu’s permission to stop them.

Monsters in the shadows

This isn’t about jaywalkers. It’s about cases that make stomachs turn:

• Marcelino De Leon Yoc, a Guatemalan predator charged with raping a child in Roxbury.
• John Tobon Vargas, a Colombian accused of kidnapping and rape in Boston.
• Kebler Lasso, an Ecuadorian convicted of soliciting murder in Brockton, let loose until ICE stepped in.
• José Leonardo Gutierrez-Mendez, a Salvadoran deportee hiding in Lynn, busted again.

Wu calls Boston safe. Cops call ICE. That’s the reality.

City Hall theater, street-level survival

To Wu, sanctuary is a slogan. To cops, it’s a leash. Every time City Hall ignores an ICE detainer, another criminal goes back on the block.

So officers improvise. They whisper names. They slip intel. They keep their neighborhoods safe the old-fashioned way — by quietly ignoring City Hall.

This is Boston’s open secret: the city survives not because of Wu’s policies, but because her cops are breaking them.

The bottom line

The left loves to sneer about “hero cops.” But in Boston, that’s exactly what they are — men and women risking their jobs to make sure predators don’t prowl the streets.

Wu can call it sanctuary. Her cops call it saving the city.