Thirty bike officers will be deployed throughout the city’s neighborhoods this summer in an effort to curb summer violence, Boston’s top cop told the city council yesterday.

Police Commissioner William B. Evans said the city historically sees a surge in shootings beginning June 1 and lasting through the end of August.

This summer has been no different, Evans said.

“Last weekend was a busy weekend. I think we had seven people shot. Councilor, I’m sorry what happened on your street. Four young kids getting shot on the street is not something I like to get woken up to.”

Evans was speaking directly to Councilor Kim Janey, who had previously described the “traumatic” event of calling 911 after four young men were shot during a party Saturday shortly after midnight on Copeland Street in Roxbury.

Evans said 30 bike cops will be distributed throughout the city, with about three per district. The new bike cops are in addition to a fleet of about 40 bike officers who work throughout the city wherever they are needed.

“It will give us the ability to respond more,” Evans told councilors at the committee of public safety and criminal justice hearing. Following the hearing, he told the Herald he envisions bike officers patrolling parks and some of the neighborhoods’ more violent areas.

“Most of it is community policing,” Evans said. “The good thing about bikes, and not like cars — people can talk and get to know their neighborhood police officers.”

Councilor Matt O’Malley asked Evans if he could deploy bike cops at the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain, where two men were killed in a hail of gunfire in May.

Yesterday, police presented information to the council that said on average, 95 people are shot in the summer in the city according to statistics between 2007 and 2017. There have been 77 shootings so far this year through June 12, 16 fewer when compared to the same time last year, police said.

But, police said, there have been 19 fatal shootings through June 12 compared to 13 fatal shootings last year at the same time.

Evans said nearly 300 guns have been taken off the street, but police are seeing more high-caliber weapons.

“We are having more deaths because the guns are more powerful,” he said. “What we need, honestly, is the community’s help to make this a safe summer. … This has to be a comprehensive approach.”