In the wake of a police officer being killed and a growing sense of uneasiness in the city, Mayor Eric Adams is set to restore a summer police academy class that was on the budget chopping block.

He will announce the July class as part of his executive budget for Fiscal Year 2025.

In November, Adams had cut five police classes, citing dire fiscal straits. But since then, he has rolled back cuts to two of those classes. 

“The mayor has been very clear that public safety is the prerequisite to prosperity, and that’s why we have plans to continue adding thousands of additional cops to New York City streets through November and will continue to evaluate between now and the executive budget to determine if there are any other areas where we can restore more funding,” Charles Lutvak, first deputy press secretary to the mayor, told NY1 on Friday.

For days now, Adams has blamed bail laws and progressive lawmakers for the recent high-profile violent crimes.

“Idealism collides with realism. This far leftist mindset that believes we should not have a criminal justice system in place. We’re going to look like some of these other cities,” the mayor said during a tapped appearance on 105.1 FM “The Breakfast Club” on Friday.  

Adams, a former police captain, has come under pressure by some lawmakers in recent days to take action amid fallout from the death of Officer Jonathan Diller.

Diller, a three-year veteran of the force, was killed on Monday during a routine traffic stop in Queens.

On Wednesday, Councilman Robert Holden sent a letter to Adams and Police Commissioner Edward Caban, urging them to restore NYPD academy classes.

“I am compelled to address an urgent matter that concerns many within our community — the need for a more robust strategy to strengthen our police force,” Holden’s letter read.

Holden told NY1 on Friday that adding classes is a good first step, but the police department is facing a serious attrition problem that needs to be addressed.

The mayor, in recent days, has taken to highlighting the dwindling numbers of the police department to raise an alarm about public safety in the city.  

“Every piece of our public safety apparatus that the everyday working-class person wants, we’re seeing it all of a sudden erode. And we’re going to lose the foundation of our prosperity and that’s public safety,” said Adams to the hosts of “The Breakfast Club.”

Adams is expected to unveil his executive budget in April.