+1 DaasYochid
Contrary to popular perception, the rabbis in Meah Shearim do NOT have control over enforcing tznius in the neighborhood. They have no enforcement powers, contrary to popular perception. The remarkable adherence to proper tznius in MS is a result of education of the people and the people’s own love of following halachic dictates.
Furthermore, all the recent (and no recent) news reports of alleged violence are extreme exaggerations of small matters. For the most part, these things never happened or are completely different than reported. And some are invented by the chiloni press out of the whole of fabric. And of course are then eaten and propagated wholesale by the willing anti-too-frum press published by allegedly religious people.
The rabbis do not have to, and should not, believe every piece of loshon hora printed in Ha’aretz and JPost and then reprinted here and on the so-called “Jewish” blogosphere.
The reason Rav Shteinman supports the Meah Shearim kehila (which Rav Eliashev is a lifetime member of) is because they are right.