The NYPD announced a new hands-on approach to reduce the impact of illegal dirt bike and ATV riders that terrorize city streets – by crushing their seized rides and broadcasting the destruction on television.

“We are going to crush them on TV to make a point,” said Mayor de Blasio Monday at a press conference at NYPD headquarters.

The city’s top cop also ripped into the menaces on wheels — who are known to recklessly shutdown city highways to perform dangerous stunts — calling them “knuckleheads, nitwits, and clowns.”

Commissioner Bratton encouraged the hooligans to “go out to Long Island,” — or else their coveted rides could be reduced to metal scraps in a proposed “crush-in” later this spring.

“We will, a little later this spring, have a big crush-in, where we intend to takes all of these things and crush them,” Bratton said

Although officials did not announce exactly when and where the pubic destruction will take place, Bratton is certain the tactic will prove a point.

“They’re not gonna be too happy we take those damn things and crush them.”

In the first quarter of the year, the NYPD has seized 312 of the illegal rides – more than double the amount confiscated in the same period last year.

Just in the last two weeks, the NYPD took 65 of the vehicles of street and arrested 12 operators for driving recklessly.

The uptick is seizures come amid a citywide crackdown – where police are looking to catch the criminals while they’re gassing up at stations, rallying around parks or on deserted streets.

“I’d like to remove as many of these from the streets early on this year before the warm weather gets here,” said according to Chief of Patrol Carlos Gomez.

The department will use chokepoints and checkpoints to arrest the riders – but they won’t chase them.

“We do not want to chase these individuals through the streets,” said Gomez. “I believe that causes even a greater danger to motorist and pedestrians and themselves.”