Barbot Must Go . . .

As if fighting the coronavirus weren’t enough, New York City is seeing a crime surge, too — and city officials share blame. As The Post’s Tina Moore and Craig McCarthy reported Tuesday, last week’s 31 shootings were nearly four times the number during the same week in 2019, pushing up 2020’s total 21 percent. Gunfire victims also soared, to 37, from just 10 in 2019, bringing the yearly figure to 315, a 24 percent bump.

Murders last week swelled to nine from just four last year, and are up 8 percent in total over 2019. Burglaries rose 38 percent during the past month, as crooks target closed businesses. Car thefts through May 10 have climbed 63 percent over 2019.

Meanwhile, viral videos show grim confrontations between the public and cops trying to enforce social-distancing rules, fueling police-civilian tension.

And much of the force suspects that city Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot’s comment that she doesn’t “give two rats’ asses” about cops reflects the view of most of the city’s leadership. Her apology Monday hardly fixed matters, plainly coming only after the mayor took her to the woodshed.

Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch said cops weren’t surprised by her slur — or that she still has her job. After all, Barbot was just “summing up” Mayor de Blasio’s “approach to governance,” displaying an attitude that “infects” the city’s “entire political class.”

Lynch correctly notes that some crimes were heading up even before the pandemic, thanks to New York’s “pro-criminal” policies. Albany made it nearly impossible last year to detain suspects nabbed for all but the most violent crimes — and botched the fix for that this year.

Indiscriminate release of jail and prison inmates in the name of containing COVID-19 isn’t helping. As The Post reports Wednesday, 19 percent of this year’s shooting suspects are 2020 parolees, compared to just 12 percent in 2019.

If de Blasio wanted to show he truly backs cops, not crooks, he’d start by firing Barbot.