The cops can catch her, but the judicial system continues to play catch-and-release

Serial purse snatcher has 59 busts — and still avoids jail

A robbery suspect with 59 busts under her belt has been through a revolving door of arrests — and avoided jail again this week for yet another mugging, cops say. 

Serial purse snatcher, Nicole Green, 46, who was picked up on a robbery charge Monday was freed by a Manhattan judge that day, after DA Alvin Bragg’s office asked for supervised release, the Post has learned.

The latest charges come just days after she managed to dodge a stay in jail last Thursday for violating terms of her release in another robbery case by missing a court-mandated hearing.

The inability of the system to jail Green has disgusted law-enforcement members.

“This is crazy,” a Brooklyn cop said. “The public is being put in jeopardy. 

“The only thing that surprises me is that she waited two days to do another robbery,” the source added.

Cops say Green has a rap sheet 27 years long. 

Green’s most recent arrest was on Monday, when she kicked a woman on a Queens-bound E train, grabbed her purse and took money from her wallet according to cops. She was charged with robbery in the third degree.

And of course, that number only records the number of times she was caught: can we assume that she’s successfully evaded capture say, nine-out-of-ten times?