By Haley Brown and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon Published Jan. 28, 2024 Updated Jan. 28, 2024, 4:10 p.m. ET

Mayor Eric Adams took a crew of City Council members on police patrol over the weekend in his much-publicized bid to kill a controversial cop bill.

At least eight Big Apple lawmakers donned bullet-proof vests for a Saturday night ride-along with cops in Harlem and the Bronx — with Adams hoping to sway at least two council members to flip their votes and squash the proposed “How Many Stops” bill he vetoed this month.

“It was very eye-opening and I think that this is something we should incorporate when we’re putting together bills like this,” Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks (D-Staten Island) said after wrapping up the night.

“It does give good insight,” Hanks added.

Packed into NYPD vehicles, the lawmakers tagged along for cop calls that included reports of a stolen cell phone and an assault at a Manhattan liquor store.

Adams, a former NYPD captain, is banking that the experience will help kill a 35-9 super majority on the council when lawmakers convene on Tuesday to vote to on whether to overturn the mayor’s veto of the controversial “How Many Stops Act.“

The proposal would require cops on the beat to file reports on even the most menial encounters with New Yorkers — which Adams says would drown New York’s Finest in unnecessary paperwork.

Should City Hall get two council members to change their votes the mayor’s veto would hold up.

“This is a brilliant idea of governance,” Adams said Saturday night. “I think we do a lot in our chambers that is not really a full knowledge of what’s on the ground.

“It’s better when we spend time on the ground,” he told reporters. “I think we should make this part of our orientation.”

With constant prodding from cops on the ride-along, councilmembers were told how police officers simply asking bystanders if they saw anything could trigger the new law and hamper police work.

Some council members pushed back on Adams’ ride-along offer, including a dozen members of the black subcommittee of the council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, which issued a terse statement last week telling the mayor they didn’t “need a litmus test” on police work.

Among the lawmakers signing off on that statement was Yusef Salaam (D-Manhattan) who said he backed out of the ride-along after getting pulled over by police in Harlem on Friday night.

Police said Salaam was pulled over for having tinted windows on the car that were too dark under the law — and released bodycam footage of the cop politely leaving the scene when the pol immediately identified himself as a member of the council.

Nonetheless, Salaam griped in a statement that the cop never said why he was pulled over.

Salaam, who told the officer he was on an official call, was driving a vehicle with Georgia license plates and had his family in the car.