{"id":45666,"date":"2025-11-20T03:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45666\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:59:14","slug":"keeping-jessica-tisch-on-as-nypd-boss-offers-hope-for-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45666\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Jessica Tisch on as NYPD boss offers hope for the city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani showed wisdom in asking Jessica Tisch to stay on as police commissioner<\/a>, and her decision to stay on offers much hope for the city.<\/p>\n

The challenge now is for the new mayor not to undermine her, despite their deep differences on matters of principle.<\/p>\n

Tisch has done a remarkable job overseeing the NYPD since her appointment a year ago.<\/p>\n

On her watch, the department\u2019s been shattering records<\/a> in fighting crime.<\/p>\n

This year, murders \u2014 at 275 as of Sunday, down a stunning 21% over last year \u2014 may well best the lowest number on recent record (292 in 2017).<\/p>\n

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Shootings are down 23%; even shoplifting is down 13%.<\/a><\/p>\n

Plus, Tisch took major steps to purge corruption in the NYPD\u2019s top ranks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0And she\u2019s optimistic she\u2019ll be able to chalk up yet more gains under Mamdani.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe 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,\u201d explained Gotham\u2019s top cop on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Yet the NYPD boss is open about her deep differences with the Democratic Socialist: \u201cDo the mayor-elect and I agree on everything? No,\u201d she admits \u2014 which plainly understates the case:<\/p>\n

Tisch opposes recent criminal-justice \u201creforms,\u201d like cashless bail and Raise the Age, which have fueled crime and hampered cops\u2019 ability to do their jobs; Mamdani thinks those \u201cfixes\u201d don\u2019t go far enough.<\/p>\n

She appreciates the enormous value of the NYPD\u2019s gang database; Mamdani has sought<\/a> to abolish it.<\/p>\n

Nor could she be eager to lose her power to determine discipline measures, if any, for an officer accused in a complaint, a move that would undermine the department\u2019s chain of command; the mayor-elect has talked up shifting that power to the notoriously anti-cop Civilian Complaint Review Board.<\/p>\n

Tisch backs Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 plan to add 5,000 officers; Mamdani refuses to boost the number by a single cop, and indeed seems poised to let the force shrink more.<\/p>\n

And would Tisch, who supports Israel, have officers arrest Israel\u2019s Benjamin Netanyahu if he steps foot in the city? The mayor-elect is adamant about it.<\/p>\n

How does she feel about his plan to scrap the NYPD\u2019s Strategic Response Group, which not only races to dangerous crime scenes, like the murder of Police Officer Didarul Islam<\/a> at a Park Avenue office building in July, but also controls violent protests (including the recent rash of antisemitic ones)? <\/p>\n

Tisch insists<\/a> she can lead the department \u201chonorably\u201d under Mamdani; we\u2019re sure she\u2019ll do her best.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not her honor we\u2019re worried about, but her ability to rein in the new boss\u2019 most dangerous instincts.<\/p>\n

Cross your fingers: It\u2019s a huge win for New York City if this odd couple can make it work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani showed wisdom in asking Jessica Tisch to stay on as police commissioner, and her decision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3895,7546,303,7589,304,6809,60,5302,238,9,24,55,54,56,103,26063,299,104,82],"class_list":["post-45666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-civilian-complaint-review-board","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice-reforms","tag-editorial","tag-gangs","tag-israel","tag-jessica-tisch","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nypd","tag-nypd-corruption-scandal","tag-opinion","tag-police","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}