Shootings and killings down – & you ask about slashings? Waa!

NEW YORK’S top cop misses the days when all everyone talked about was gunfire in the streets.

“When was the last time you wrote about that?” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton asked reporters Tuesday as Mayor de Blasio stood by his side. “Shootings and murders are down, but you’ve lost interest in that.”

Bratton’s grumpy grousing came as he was again asked about the spree of slashings and stabbings hitting the city.

As of Sunday night, 567 stabbings and slashings have occurred this year — 97 more than in the same time period in 2015. That’s an increase of about 21%.

Only seven of the attacks were considered random, a testy Bratton said as he tried to downplay the spike in blade attacks. Despite his claims, several other stabbings and slashings involved confrontations between complete strangers.

“If it bleeds, it leads . . . that’s your business,” he said.

The he sounded downright conciliatory. “But it’s appropriate to focus attention on what’s concerning the public,” he said.

The 1,200 Police Academy recruits expected to graduate in April will be on the street to curb the blade attacks, Bratton said.

Despite the widespread vio-

lence, de Blasio backed Bratton’s position.

“The thing that scares people . . . which is a random slashing . . . is very, very, rare, and they have caught people in almost every case,” de Blasio said. “That more cops will be on the street is very reassuring.”

Bratton’s comments come as police have arrested the baby-faced 16-year-old accused of slashing a 25-year-old man at a Greenwich Village diner, officials said.

Dominico Howington (photo inset) was picked up at the Lillian Wald Houses on the Lower East Side early Tuesday. He was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Despite his tender age, Howington is already on parole — for a robbery he committed in 2014, according to court documents. He’s also been arrested for assault, criminal trespass and petty larceny.

Victim Bobby Barbot needed 120 stitches to close the gash to his face following the clash at the Silver Spurs diner on LaGuardia Place near W. Houston St. about 8 p.m. on Feb 17.

Barbot, a busboy at the restaurant, said the gash cut clear through the left side of his face, with half the stitches sewn inside his mouth to close the huge wound.

“I’m glad they got him,” Barbot told the Daily News on Tuesday.