The NYPD is actively investigating around 1,000 individuals in connection to shootings, the department’s chief of crime control strategies told Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Monday.

“It’s the very small number of individuals that continue to drive violence in New York City,” Michael Lipetri said. “We’re talking about less than 1%, .008% of the population in New York City — about 1,000 individuals — are responsible for a lion’s share of the shootings across the city.”

“Each one of those individuals are under an active investigation by the NYPD,” he added.

There have been 896 shootings this year, down from 1,010 at the same point last year, NYPD statistics show.

Lipetri also said there has been a “sharp increase in serious arrests of 16- and 17-year-olds,” but the NYPD could not provide data Monday evening on shooting incidents involving suspects who are minors.

“When it comes to violent crime, there has to be consequences for also youth,” the NYPD chief said.

He blamed social media and music for antagonizing young New Yorkers into violence.

“A lot of this is fueled by younger crew violence. Usually will be a precursor to something on social media, whether it’s words or a song that might fuel this violence,” the department chief said.

Mayor Eric Adams has expressed concerns about the potential role drill music — a hip-hop subgenre — and portrayals of gangs on social media play in the promotion of violence. But hip-hop artists have pushed back on the idea, arguing the violence inspires the music, not the other way around.

Maino, a 48-year-old Brooklyn rapper who rose to prominence in the 2000s, met with the mayor alongside a dozen other artists in February to make this case.

“The music is the manifestation of the direct lifestyle off of what they come from. The music does not influence the life, it is the life that influence the music,” he told NY1 at the time.