Andrew Cuomo mentioned on Sunday he would hold Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner if elected mayor.
“I feel Commissioner Tisch has carried out a very, actually good job,” Cuomo mentioned of New York Metropolis’s high cop throughout an look on CBS’s “The Level with Marcia Kramer.”
“I’d say off the bat I’d ask her to remain,” he mentioned.
Kramer had requested Cuomo which high officers or company heads in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration he would take into account protecting if the ex-governor wins the race for Metropolis Corridor.
Cuomo, who misplaced the Democratic mayoral major to Zohran Mamdani in June, continues to be working on the unbiased “Combat and Ship” poll line.
Entrance-runner Mamdani has mentioned he was “actively contemplating” protecting Tisch.
Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, when requested if he would hold Tisch, informed Pix 11 on Friday, “Completely.”
Public security has been a serious situation within the marketing campaign.
Cuomo has proposed including 5,000 cops to the drive.
Sliwa vowed so as to add 7,000 cops.
Mamdani has in the meantime been scrambling to distance himself from his statements in 2020 calling for defunding the police and labeling officers “racist, anti-queer and a menace to public security.”
“What we’d like is to #defund the NYPD,” he wrote on X on the time.
Mamdani has since apologized for the “language” he used and now claims he not considers officers racist and is in opposition to defunding the police, although he has not referred to as for growing the drive.
He has proposed a brand new metropolis Division of Group Security to assist mentally in poor health New Yorkers and bolster crime-prevention packages, thus relieving cops of addressing the “frayed social security internet” as a substitute of significant crime.
As for Cuomo and Tisch, the pair haven’t all the time seen eye to eye.
Tisch has blamed state criminal-justice reforms accepted by then-Gov. Cuomo, that took impact in 2020 — such because the “Elevate the Age” legislation, which upped the age of felony accountability from 16 to 18 — for making a “consequence-free setting” for crime-committing youths.
“For my part, crime went up on account of the drastic modifications we see in our felony justice legal guidelines in New York Metropolis,” she mentioned final month.
