Mayor Eric Adams drew a line in the sand with the City Council Friday as he vetoed a controversial bill that would make cops record all street stops — and railed that the measure is a massive waste of the NYPD’s time.

The mayor now faces the likelihood that his veto of the bill, which had overwhelming support in the council, will be overridden — and he now must wage a battle to recruit councilmembers to his side as Speaker Adrienne Adams closes ranks. 

“I’m asking the city council members to read this entire bill and then compare it with a level one stop and see and fully understand the interaction,” the Mayor said. “The intentions are good.”

“We agree on much of the table, but the aspect of level one stops,” he added in a much more toned-down approach than recent appeals. 

The city council pushed through the legislation — dubbed the How Many Stops Act, which requires officers to log demographic data in all levels of stops — at the end of last year with a vetoproof 35-9 vote.

The mayor will now have to swing at least two councilmembers to not vote to override, which requires a two-thirds majority of the 51 city lawmakers.

In the Blue Room on Friday morning, the mayor made his case to the council who may be on the fence over the volume of reporting in the bill.

“We’re already using body cameras to document these interactions and making sure that we’re getting exactly what we expect from our police officers, that’s why I’m vetoing this legislation,” the mayor said.

While, over the last few days, Adams has tried to fire up his supporters over the legislation through social media videos and pointed statements at public events.

Just last night, he slammed the NY Real Estate Board for its silence. 

“I have not seen one comment from you,” he snapped, urging them to run ads against the bill. 

Hours earlier, he charged that the bill would have delayed the capture of the dangerous stabbing suspect because of the mounds of paperwork mandated by the law. 

The bill has sparked a long-festering feud between the mayor and his allies and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who initially sponsored the legislation. 

“This bill would not help solve these crimes and bring some closure to the victims of crime and I ask the people who put together this bill and Jumaane Williams, when is the last time you did a piece of legislation for the victims of crimes,” said NYPD detectives union head Paul DiGiacomo while standing next to Adams.”

Williams fired back moments after the veto, saying the mayor was “manipulating people’s pains and fear to feed his ego and political interests.”

“I really wish that he would stop using deception as the hallmark of his administration,” he added.

Council leadership though has been unfazed by the mayor’s campaign and is confident the members will rally for an override.  

“Rather than focusing on governing our city, the Mayor and his administration have sought to mislead and incite fear through a propaganda campaign, wasting government resources and creating division,” Speaker Adrienne Adams and Public Safety Chair Yusef Salaam said in a joint-statement. “These actions only raise questions about why this administration fears sharing data with New Yorkers about the use of their tax dollars. 

“NYPD officers and our entire city deserve better.”

Sources believe the mayor’s vocal opposition is more part of the administration’s push to appeal to his base as a pro-cop lawmaker while fighting struggling poll numbers. 

At least two council members however have raised doubts about having the level one stops included in the bill, but it was unclear if they would defect from the council majority, according to sources.

One council source believed the veto would spark more debate over the bill’s contents. 

“[The mayor’s] press conference was great but it’s a month too late,” the source said, but added that “now the public can weigh in.”

Another said that even council members who don’t like the bill are expected to vote to override it because the fight is now less about the bill’s merits and more about not giving the mayor the win. 

The administration believes it could potentially block the override with the recent council assignment shake-up and the four new council members, who are expected to split 2-2. 

The mayor will also have to ensure the five council members who did not vote last time, don’t move to the speaker’s column.

“I’m hoping that the city council understands the place that we are coming from,” the mayor said flanked by members of police unions, community and his administration, adding, “We’re not coming from an argumentative place. We’re not coming from being disagreeable. 

“We’re coming from a place of public safety. This bill is going to get in the way of that.”

The NYPD already captures the majority of the information for level 2 and level 3 stops with its body-worn camera reports, but critics have argued requiring the notation of age, sex and race and ethnicity in level 1 stop, the most common investigative interaction, would take cops off the street for too long.  

Each cop has, on average, roughly two dozen level 1 stops on each shift, which could require documentation for 50 to 60 interactions, according to police sources. 

The sources have estimated that it would add up to half an hour at the end of a shift — 30 seconds per report — plus the time documenting that info in their memo book on patrol if done via body-camera logs. 

The mayor signaled Friday when pressed by The Post that he’d concede to reporting the simple count of level 1 stops, without requiring of further detail. 

Williams said that was a non-starter. 

“The reason that we want and is why it’s here is because you want it you’re trying to see if there’s any bias,” he said. “What we fear is going to happen is that the undercounting will just go straight to level ones.”

The mayor has vetoed two bills from the council so far, with one on housing vouchers being overridden. 

Hizzoner also announced —  in a much less public fashion — his second veto of the day with his opposition to the solitary confinement bill. 

The bill, which was passed 39-7, will be a much tougher battle for the mayor to win on with council members despite the federal monitor issues with it as written.