Shea what?! No cop ‘slowdown’

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea brushed off any accusations of a police “slowdown” Monday — saying the suggestion makes his “blood boil.”

The top cop confirmed that he was cutting officers’ time off on weekends to try to tackle the alarming spike in gun crime as the NYPD deals with a “fuse lit at both ends,” with police overtime cuts and droves of retirees driving down the department’s deployable numbers.

But Shea defended the rank and file from accusations of a “deliberate slowdown” on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” on Monday after Public Advocate Jumaane Williams pressed the department for arrest numbers, citing rumors over the decline in police activity.

“Right now, there is a fuse lit at both ends. On one end, you have attrition, going through the roof, and on the other end, you have an overtime budget that was decimated,” Shea said, calling “slowdown” claims “absolutely not true.”

“I try to keep a level [head] at times, but when I hear that, it does make my blood boil. They’re working, they’re running towards danger.”

Arrests have been down since the coronavirus all but shuttered New York in March, but the trend has continued over the last two months as the city has slowly reopened.

Over the last four weeks, overall collars were down nearly 50 percent compared with the same time last year, according to NYPD data released Monday.

The dip comes as shootings have surged by more than 160 percent over the same period, with Gotham seeing its 12th consecutive week of surging gun violence.