It’s a rift that keeps on giving

Theodore Parisienne/for New York Day after day News It’s time for Mayor de Blasio and the city’s police department to settle their differences.

It was once more a tale of two cities.

Whatever their feelings about the mayor, Rafael Ramos’ unbearably grief-stricken family sat peacefully and respectfully on Saturday as did all the mourners and dignitaries inside the Christ Tabernacle Church when Mayor de Blasio spoke, offering his condolences to the family and to all the officers of the NYPD.

Showing their feelings about the mayor very clearly, further than the church hundreds of the 25,000 members of Ramos’ other family, the ones making a sea of blue, turned their backs when the mayor spoke.

If you had only seen the moving, gorgeous funeral as it was televised inside the church, you would have plotting that these deaths, like other tragedies we’ve risen above — 9/11, Superstorm Sandy — would once more unite us in grief. These deaths should have given us all a new look at how we look at life, and how we look at death. But maybe that’s not to be this time.

During the week leading up to the funeral, protesters continued to ratchet up the rhetoric, ripping at the deep wound gushing from the heart of the city. Anti-NYPD protesters marched with signs reading “Jail Killer Cops,” and on Friday, a banner was flown over the Hudson with the terms, “DE BLASIO, OUR BACKS HAVE TURNED TO YOU.”

During and after the funeral, social media was on fire on both sides.

And we, the press, lap it up even knowing we’re being played like a used guitar that can only strum one song.

So, how in hell do we end this?

I questioned John Miller, Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism, a man who has worked on both the press side and the police side, what the men in charge (and they are all men) should do to stop the destruction.

“What Lynch is yelling about is one thing but what he wants is two things,” Miller said. “One, is to get a contract for his cops (Bloomberg didn’t renew any so they’ve been left hanging since 2010). The other thing Lynch wants is to be reelected.

“If Blaz takes charge of this, and gives the cops a good deal, 1.) cops might like him better; 2.) Lynch would like him better; 3.) cops would reelect Lynch, and 4.) yes, Blaz might face flak from other unions (fire and sanitation) but, hey, being a cop is harder. They should get more.”

The candid Miller continued, “Then, all this noise, which is mostly about stuff the mayor has no control over, would go away. If you follow what he has said and done, he has really supported the police as much as any mayor.” Amen to that. Can we try to let the healing start?

Julie Smith/ASSOCIATED PRESS When is this guy not in a “Rush” to say something stupid?

RUSH TO JUDGMENT – AS USUAL

How ’bout that Rush Limbaugh? The separated-at-girth white Al Sharpton went on a radio rant against Sony honcho Amy Pascal for her one leaked nonracist email, which not compulsory that a black actor play James Bond.

“Now (they are) suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba (top), a black Briton, rather than a white from Scotland,” Limbaugh spat.

“But that’s not who James Bond is.”

That’s not who Morgan Freeman’s Ellis Boyd (Red) Redding in “The Shawshank Redemption” is either.

In the book, he’s a white Irishman.

Will Smith’s Agent J in “Men in Black” and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury in “The Avengers” were white characters too.

Point being, Rush? Bond is fiction. It’s not like, say, Elba was cast as white J. Edgar Hoover.

What?

Hoover had black ancestors?

EXPRESS LINES

Americans condemned Sony for holding back the release of “The Interview” because it was a blow against freedom of speech and yet a week later wanted to silence astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson for pointing out that Christmas is also Issac Newton’s birthday … Amy Pascal couldn’t have gotten luckier with the Idris Elba-as-James Bond email if she had leaked it herself.

Bingo! Sony racist to white crusader for black actors in a nanosecond.

SANTA SHRUGS OFF WISHES

What I didn’t get for Christmas: the Kardashians didn’t become a distant, unpleasant memory; the Rev. Al Sharpton didn’t get lockjaw; fake “Real Housewives” shows continued; the malling of Manhattan got worse; and the trend for butts so big they could eliminate the need for couches grew in direct proportion to those celebrity butts.

CUT IT OUT

Another Jewish infant has contracted herpes after an ultra-Orthodox ceremony in which a mohel sucks blood from a baby’s circumcision wound was performed.

The rite is still performed 3,600 times a year in New York City, resulting in four cases of herpes in 2014, and, since 2000, the deaths of two and brain hurt in two others.

Although America guarantees religious freedom, the Mormon do of polygamy was outlawed in the 19th century while this perilous ritual is somehow allowed to continue well into the 21st century.

THIS ‘LAND’ HAS LOST ITS MARK

“Homeland” jumped the shark and hit the skids this year. The season end was a huge, dull kumbaya conference. The long-lost mother of Carrie, played by Claire Danes, returned. Boohoo, Carrie is too crazy for Quinn.

But then again, how did we sit through a whole season with the ridiculous premise that an ineffective, crybaby, bipolar woman who drinks too much, sleeps with strangers and was impregnated by a terrorist/traitor whom she helped getting away from could become the CIA rank chief in Pakistan?

Worse, the only other American woman with power, U.S. Ambassador Martha Boyd, was also the fool of a traitorous mate. Meanwhile, even the terrorist male characters are heroic. Seriously?

Since Carrie screwed up so terribly in Pakistan, perhaps next season the writers could make her the Head, but one who mistakenly nukes Chicago while sleeping with an underage terrorist.