A top Assembly Democrat from Long Island said he wants the controversial bail reform law revised to bar dangerous criminal defendants from being released pending trial.

“We need to protect people. We need to protect the public,” Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Suffolk), the environmental committee chairman told The Post Monday.

“People with long rap sheets are treated the same as first offenders. That’s not appropriate,” added Englebright, who was first elected in 1992.

“It’s not good when you have one of these bad actors take advantage of the new law and become repeat offenders.”

He said he backs a proposal pushed by some Senate Democrats that would give judges more discretion to detain defendants deemed a public threat.

The law eliminates cash bail and allows more than 400 nonviolent offenses to walk free pending trial. Those offenses include most misdemeanors and even some felonies, running the gamut from criminally negligent homicide to peddling drugs on or near school grounds.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (Bronx) – a booster of the new bail law — said he wants to see hard data before considering changes.

“We need to differentiate fact from fiction and not rely on sensationalism and cherry-picked stories,” Heastie said last week.