Hundreds of thousands of revelers, and candidates in the crowded mayoral race, took to the streets of Brooklyn Monday for the West Indian American Day Parade — and at least two people were shot and third slashed amid an increase in security following last year’s deadly violence.

The roughly two-mile route for the official, annual parade kicked off at 11 a.m. on Utica Avenue near Lincoln Terrace Park, with festival goers traveling westward toward the Brooklyn Museum, as a beefed-up deployment of NYPD officers kept the peace.

“I like it like this. The cops are around. They are with the people,” said Harold Harvey, 71, a Grenada native who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago and has lived in Crown Heights since 1979. 13

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“Their heavy presence will keep away the people who come t

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