Just hours after a female NYPD officer was struck in the head with a bottle by a deranged man, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decided to add insult to injury — spitting on the profession that keeps this city safe.

“We’re now at a point where officially, most officers are paid more than a teacher with a master’s degree serving the same kids, involved in the same incidents,” AOC fumed on “The Daily Show.”

“We are defunding safety. Defunding our public schools,” she continued. “When we are taking all of those resources and demanding every single department except the militarized ones be cut, we are sending a message about who and what we care about.”

What disrespectful, factless blather.

Last year, per the Department of Education, starting salaries for teachers with no teaching experience ranged from $61,070 for a candidate with just a bachelor’s degree to $68,252 for one with a master’s.

Under the contract just signed with the police officers’ union, starting NYPD cops will make $55,000.

Moreover, if teachers are “involved in the same incidents,” it’s because AOC and her ilk have successfully gotten police out of schools and pushed “restorative justice,” under which teachers can’t discipline disruptive, sometimes violent, students.

Finally, we’re “defunding” nothing.

New York City spends more on education than almost any place in the nation, a staggering $32,757 per student. The city budget tops $100 billion, a 37% jump from a decade ago.

AOC claims to care about unions and the working class but dismisses 55,000 unionized New Yorkers because of her utter disdain for the police.

The fine men and women of the NYPD would not hesitate to run toward danger to save any of us, to keep us safe.

If that’s the “message” about what this city cares about, Amen!