Blas blithely dismisses surge in shootings

See-no-evil Bill is back. Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday brushed off the concerns of everyday New Yorkers about shootings on city streets when asked by a reporter at his daily briefing why he wasn’t at the scenes of recent horrifying slayings.

Instead, Hizzoner trotted out old excuses about his administration’s inability to get the Big Apple’s shooting surge in hand.

He made the remarks hours after a tourist returning from Tuesday night’s Mets game in Philadelphia was shot just blocks from Penn Station a little after 2 a.m.

“I don’t hear you talking about this,” said veteran 1010 WINS reporter Juliet Papa, as she recounted several deadly attacks. “Why aren’t you going to these neighborhoods to be supportive and to say this won’t be tolerated?”

“Juliet, it clearly won’t be tolerated, because for years now, we’ve been changing the whole reality of how we address crime and violence,” de Blasio said, once again invoking city’s record-low crime numbers before the coronavirus outbreak turned life upside down to brush away the mounting worries.

“We had a horrible disruption last year, the perfect storm of COVID,” Hizzoner added, reviving his much-mocked excuse for his administration’s struggles to check the violence. “But the NYPD is out there doing great work, more gun arrests than we’ve had in a quarter-century.”

New York City recorded double the number of shootings in March 2021 as the year before — when the pandemic began to explode.