Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani confirmed knowledge in asking Jessica Tisch to remain on as police commissioner, and her resolution to remain on affords a lot hope for town.
The problem now could be for the brand new mayor to not undermine her, regardless of their deep variations on issues of precept.
Tisch has executed a exceptional job overseeing the NYPD since her appointment a 12 months in the past.
On her watch, the division’s been shattering data in preventing crime.
This 12 months, murders — at 275 as of Sunday, down a shocking 21% over final 12 months — could effectively greatest the bottom quantity on current document (292 in 2017).
Shootings are down 23%; even shoplifting is down 13%.
Plus, Tisch took main steps to purge corruption within the NYPD’s prime ranks.
And he or she’s optimistic she’ll be capable to chalk up but extra positive factors underneath Mamdani.
“He and I share most of the identical public security objectives for New York Metropolis: decreasing crime, making communities safer, rooting out corruption and giving our officers the instruments, help and assets they want,” defined Gotham’s prime cop on Wednesday.
But the NYPD boss is open about her deep variations with the Democratic Socialist: “Do the mayor-elect and I agree on the whole lot? No,” she admits — which plainly understates the case:
- Tisch opposes current criminal-justice “reforms,” like cashless bail and Increase the Age, which have fueled crime and hampered cops’ potential to do their jobs; Mamdani thinks these “fixes” don’t go far sufficient.
- She appreciates the big worth of the NYPD’s gang database; Mamdani has sought to abolish it.
- Nor may she be wanting to lose her energy to find out self-discipline measures, if any, for an officer accused in a grievance, a transfer that will undermine the division’s chain of command; the mayor-elect has talked up shifting that energy to the notoriously anti-cop Civilian Criticism Evaluation Board.
- Tisch backs Mayor Eric Adams’ plan so as to add 5,000 officers; Mamdani refuses to spice up the quantity by a single cop, and certainly appears poised to let the power shrink extra.
And would Tisch, who helps Israel, have officers arrest Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu if he steps foot within the metropolis? The mayor-elect is adamant about it.
How does she really feel about his plan to scrap the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, which not solely races to harmful crime scenes, just like the homicide of Police Officer Didarul Islam at a Park Avenue workplace constructing in July, but additionally controls violent protests (together with the current rash of antisemitic ones)?
Tisch insists she will be able to lead the division “honorably” underneath Mamdani; we’re positive she’ll do her greatest.
It’s not her honor we’re frightened about, however her potential to rein within the new boss’ most harmful instincts.
Cross your fingers: It’s an enormous win for New York Metropolis if this odd couple could make it work.
