New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has confirmed NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has accepted an offer from to remain New York City’s top cop under his administration.
Mamdani had repeatedly said both during the campaign and after his Nov. 4 election that he wanted to keep Tisch on. During an interview on WABC Eyewitness News aired on Sunday, Mamdani said he had talked to Tisch about her remaining as police commissioner “just last week”.
In an email to NYPD officers on Wednesday, Tisch wrote that she agreed to stay on following “several conversations with him.”
“I wanted you the men and women of the NYPD to hear this directly from me first,” she wrote in the email obtained by the Daily News. “Because the reason I have chosen to stay is you.”
The decision comes just under a year after she was sworn in as the city’s 48th police commissioner and amid widespread speculation about her staying on as police commissioner under Mamdani’s leadership.
Tisch’s Reign as NYPD Chief
Tisch, 44, has been lauded for leading the NYPD as the city experienced a massive reduction in crime as well a the lowest number of shootings in the city since the CompStat (computer statistics-driven policing) era began in 1994.
Her precision policing model of sending cops to communities in the city where the most violence occurs “has delivered record-low shooting incidents and victims over the last nine months, and the safest quarter ever on our subways,”
Tisch said in October. “This is not a coincidence — it’s the result of an unprecedented, data-driven deployment of thousands of officers to the areas they are needed most.”
Tisch succeeded Interim NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon. She was no stranger to the nation’s largest police force when she took the job having worked in the past as a civilian NYPD employee, first as a counterterrorism analyst, then later as Deputy Commissioner of Information Technology.
