Bill Bratton would seem to have a full plate these days, but the city’s top cop is squeezing in some added duties. He now fancies himself a media critic, political analyst and character witness for his boss.

Maybe he wants a raise?

Whatever his ambition, Bratton is biting off more than he can chew, as he proved with a wacky analysis in an interview with New York magazine.

Blaming the media for the crisis engulfing City Hall, Bratton accused this paper of “hating” Mayor Bill de Blasio and said, “If the cops are reading The Post, they’re not going to like the mayor, because it’s hanging the mayor 24 hours a day.” Then he attacked The New York Times, saying it doesn’t like de Blasio “because he’s not far enough to the left for where they want to be.”

Sob, sob — poor de Blasio, everybody’s picking on him. “This guy’s heart is in the right place,” Bratton insisted. “He likes cops. He appreciates what they do.”

Oy, where to begin to untangle Bratton’s confusion?

Start with the fact that The Post doesn’t hate de Blasio, only the fact that he shows more respect for Al Sharpton than for the cops who risk their lives to keep all New Yorkers safe. And that the mayor has so little regard for the families of hundreds of people who died in a plane crash that he was late to the annual moment of silence in Queens. And that he erects a tall fence around Gracie Mansion, then lies about the reason and the cost. And that he demands that landlords freeze rents while charging a whopping $5,000 a month for his vacant Brooklyn house.

Covering those news events used to be called journalism, but now it’s “hate”? Bratton seems to have lost his way in City Hall’s fun-house mirrors.

As for whether the cops read The Post, what other paper would they read? He can’t want them to read the elitist broadsheet, which, like de Blasio, labeled the NYPD a gang of racist brutes. Nor should he expect cops to read another city tabloid, which abandoned them to curry favor with Sharpton in a naked effort to boost its bottom line.

The fact is, The Post speaks for the vast majority of New Yorkers who stand with and appreciate the greatest police force in America.

Post readers understand that the gallant NYPD saved this city from a tyranny of depravity, and anybody who thinks the gains in public safety of the last 20 years mark a permanent change in human nature doesn’t understand the dark side. Some criminals are evil, and some are opportunists — but all must be stopped.

Prevention is the essence of police work, and nobody does it better than New York’s Finest.

That doesn’t mean all cops are right all the time. But they put their lives on the line, running toward danger when the rest of us run away. The least we can do is give them the benefit of the doubt when they are in a jam.

That requirement falls heaviest on the mayor, but de Blasio not only fails that test, he does so with relish. For him and his radical entourage, all cops are guilty until proven innocent.

He hired Bratton to bridge the gap between his own contempt for police and Bratton’s stellar record, going so far as to call Bratton a “progressive crime fighter,” whatever that means.

But their dance is proving to be mission impossible. Indeed, de Blasio repeatedly made it clear his sympathy was with the anti-police demonstrators, even after some called for “dead cops” and others attacked officers. With the mayor’s political base, including his union pals and Castro-loving commies so prominent in the protests, there is wide suspicion that City Hall had a hand in actually organizing them.

Even after Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were assassinated, the mayor remained slow to grasp the significance of their deaths or how his support for the demonstrators would be seen among the grieving officers and their frightened families. It was left to Bratton to cite the link, saying in a TV interview that the murders were a “direct spinoff” of the protests.

City Hall was reportedly furious, but Bratton had only said what was obviously true.

He ought to stick to such straight talk instead of running political interference for a failing mayor.