Blas Fiddles as Crime Soars On

NYC mayhem continues: Over the weekend, a Times Square shoplifter injured a cop who was trying to take him into custody; a man was fatally stabbed in a Bronx subway station and two concert-goers said they’d been stabbed with a needle at a Union Square music event.

Oh, and the MTA saw a huge jump in subway robberies and felonies in November. Other recent acts of mayhem:

Gary Teasley, an accused pickpocket, with more than 30 busts, was nabbed again at Rockefeller Center — and released.

Craig Tamanaha, the unhinged firebug who allegedly torched the Fox News Christmas tree, was released without bail, despite his history of low-level offenses.

Davide Giri, a Columbia grad student, was fatally stabbed by a reputed gangbanger who minutes later stabbed a second person and was nabbed while threatening a third.

A Brooklyn mom was fatally stabbed by a homeless man.

Augustin Santiago was shot dead outside a Williamsburg subway station.

Instead of tamping down violent street crime this holiday, Mayor de Blasio has imposed new vaccine mandates on kids 5-11 years old, private school staffers and workers at private businesses.

In contrast, Mayor-elect Eric Adams delivered a tough-on-crime speech to the Police Athletic League and jeered the lenient bailreform law that released Tamanaha back onto Manhattan streets: “Judges should be able to look at the person in front of them on those violent actions and make a determination” on jail. “That is the missing piece.”

Despite the nearly two-year long uptick in shootings, murders and other crimes, de Blasio sticks to his “safest big city” line. But he’ll still go down as the mayor who reversed the city’s decades-long gains against crime — and finished by simply ignoring the crisis while posturing on other issues to bolster a hopeless run for higher office.