All NYPD commish wants for Christmas is help enforcing ‘fake’ gun laws

All he wants for Christmas is some backup on gun busts. The NYPD is pulling its weight to get illegal guns off city streets, but needs the help of prosecutors, judges and pols to ensure laws are actually enforced rather than rendered “fake,” Commissioner Dermot Shea said Thursday.

“It’s Christmastime, so I’ll ask for one thing under the Christmas tree,” said Shea during a wide-ranging virtual sit-down with The Post’s editorial board. “We need to get serious about guns.”

Despite an alarming rise in shootings, attrition in the ranks and city-imposed budget cuts, NYPD gun busts have actually climbed by 27 percent this year, the top cop said.

But too often those caught packing heat end up back on the street in short order thanks to a reticence by the rest of the criminal justice system to use the full force of existing gun laws, said Shea.