After threats over the last two weeks that that normal police work would no longer be performed, the NYPD rank and file have made good on the bluster.

It’s not a slowdown — it’s a virtual work stoppage.

NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety, The Post has learned.

The dramatic drop comes as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio plan to hold an emergency summit on Tuesday with the heads of the five police unions to try to close the widening rift between cops and the administration.

The unprecedented meeting is being held at the new Police Academy in Queens at 2 p.m., sources said.

Angry union leaders have ordered drastic measures for their members since the Dec. 20 assassination of two NYPD cops in a patrol car, including that two units respond to every call.

We have moved beyond insubordination into outright blackmail of the public: kiss our boots, tell us only what we want to hear and let us violate civil rights and kill people without consequence…or else.

This is an assault on democracy. Simple as that. The police threaten the peace if a public official says something they don’t like about a talk with his own son. It isn’t just entitlement gone awry…it is a rogue agency that believes itself above the law and above the elected officials who are supposedly in charge of it.

This must end, and not on their terms. If the NYPD win this fight, they will effectively become the unelected and unaccountable paramilitary leadership of the largest city in America. Nobody will be able to do or say anything against them in the future, and no politician will allowed to govern without their consent if they get their way.

We cannot afford that.

Addendum: Critics of police policy and over-criminalization (like myself) will tend to be pleased by less arrests for minor offences. That being said, the NYPD is openly hoping for anarchy that they can then blame on the mayor and then use to force him out of office (like Mayor Dinkins a generation ago). So, I am happy that fewer people are being arrested. I also recognize that police blackmail of the public peace cannot be rewarded.