New York
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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani introduced Wednesday that Jessica Tisch accepted his offer to keep on the helm of the nation’s largest police drive.
The announcement secures the mayor-elect’s highest profile appointment as he prepares to take office in January.
It’s a major compromise for each Tisch and Mamdani, who’ve expressed totally different views on policing and public security. Mamdani, who has been beforehand crucial of the police and once supported defunding the department, apologized to officers throughout his profitable mayoral run. Tisch, generally known as an technocrat, has pushed to roll again prison justice reforms and develop neighborhood policing.
“Leading this department is the greatest privilege of my life, and I am proud to continue doing it,” Tisch wrote in a letter to the NYPD that was obtained by NCS. “Now, do the Mayor-elect and I agree on everything? No, we don’t. But in speaking with him, it’s clear that we share broad and crucial priorities: the importance of public safety, the need to continue driving down crime, and the need to maintain stability and order across the department. We also agree that you deserve the city’s respect and support.”
For weeks, it remained unclear whether or not Tisch, who was appointed to the division by Mayor Eric Adams, would settle for to keep within the position after Mamdani publicly dedicated to preserving her on the job over the past mayoral debate.
It was a final-hour effort by Mamdani and his campaign to present how a lot he was prepared to compromise and attraction to metropolis voters who remained skeptical about his marketing campaign, notably amongst older and extra average Democrats.
Tisch abstained from commenting on the race for mayor or Mamdani’s politics throughout the marketing campaign. Last week, Mamdani and Tisch held a gathering, however it remained unclear if he had secured a dedication. Gov. Kathy Hochul, one of many chief supporters of retaining Tisch, mentioned she was assured Tisch would 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 mentioned in an announcement. “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, heiress to the Loews household fortune, is a profession public servant who beforehand served as commissioner for the sanitation division and the town’s chief expertise officer. She is very regarded in authorities circles and was appointed to the job following a string of high-profile corruption scandals that rocked the division below Adams’ administration.
In the final yr, Tisch has overseen a report drop within the metropolis’s crime price, a discount in shootings and homicides, and an effort to take away hundreds of unlawful weapons from metropolis streets.