Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch
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New York Metropolis’s high cop is staying put.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani introduced Wednesday morning that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has agreed to stay accountable for the NYPD as the brand new regime takes workplace on Jan. 1. The announcement ends weeks of public hypothesis concerning Tisch’s future, and repeated public statements from the brand new mayor that he needed to retain her as town’s high cop.
Mamdani cited each Tisch’s dedication to decreasing crime and her efforts to deal with division corruption as main components in his determination to have her keep.
“I look forward to working with Commissioner Jessica Tisch to deliver genuine public safety in New York City. I have admired her work cracking down on corruption in the upper echelons of the police department, driving down crime in New York City, and standing up for New Yorkers in the face of authoritarianism,” Mamdani stated.“Together, we will deliver a city where rank-and-file police officers and the communities they serve alike are safe, represented, and proud to call New York their home.”
Tisch stated she is able to “serve with honor” as the brand new mayor’s police commissioner, and that she shares with him “many of the same public safety goals.”
“Thanks to the men and women of the NYPD, the strategies we deployed this year have delivered historic reductions in crime,” Commissioner Tisch stated. “I’ve spoken to Mayor-elect Mamdani several times, and I’m ready to serve with honor as his Police Commissioner. That’s because he and I share many of the same public safety goals for New York City: lowering crime, making communities safer, rooting out corruption, and giving our officers the tools, support, and resources they need to carry out their noble work.”
Tisch was first appointed to the function just below a yr in the past by Mayor Eric Adams; she was his fourth police commissioner in as a few years. Upon taking workplace, Tisch — a former Sanitation commissioner below Adams and Deputy Commissioner of Info Know-how below Mayor Invoice de Blasio — instantly rearranged division insiders, and eliminated these with a questionable historical past.
Based on NYPD knowledge, Tisch has overseen a historic drop in crime below her quick tenure, together with the fewest reported shootings within the first ten months of the yr, a ten% drop in murders, and the removing of almost 5,000 unlawful firearms.
Tisch will seemingly play an instrumental function as Mayor-elect Mamdani works to determine a marketing campaign promise: the Division of Neighborhood Security, an company that may focus of psychological well being points and different quality-of-life issues. Mamdani has stated this company would shift away these duties from the NYPD and permit “New York’s Finest” to pay attention extra on crime-fighting.
PBA President Patrick Hendry additionally championed Tisch and her determination to remain.
“We are very glad to hear that there will be stability and continuity in the NYPD’s leadership going forward. Commissioner Tisch understands all of the many challenges police officers face on the streets and has been working productively with us to address them. We look forward to continuing that work in the months ahead,” Hendry stated.
Nonetheless, some stay skeptical. The household of Delrawn Small, an unarmed Brooklyn man shot lifeless by an off-duty cop, and a few elected officers are demanding Tisch proceed to deal with corruption and uphold prices towards the cop accountable.
“There’s been a lot of talk about her efforts to clean up the NYPD, and this is a very clear test right here. This is a line in the sand, and this is an opportunity to remove someone who clearly cannot do his job and did not do his job and actually murdered someone in front of his family,” Brooklyn Council Member Sandy Nurse stated.
