NOTE: Everyone told us Jessica Tisch was the adult in the room. The technocrat. The reformer. The one who would scrub the NYPD clean after years of scandal. That was the sales pitch. It was a lie. What Tisch has actually done is perfect the art of selective integrity. She punishes the expendable, protects the connected, and wraps naked cronyism in the language of ethics. She talks reform while running cover. She invokes “accountability” while enforcing loyalty. Under Tisch, integrity isn’t a principle. It’s a weapon. And like every weapon in her NYPD, it’s aimed only in one direction. This is an Op-Ed entitled “Hypocrite Commissioner Jessica Tisch,” which was first published on NYNewsPress.com.
By Richard Luthmann
Hypocrite Commissioner Jessica Tisch: The Fall of Chief Maddrey and a Faux “Integrity” Crusade
(NEW YORK, NY) – Everyone expected Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to clean up the NYPD. Instead, she’s redecorating it with her cronies and punishing the enemies of the politically connected. We’ve seen enough hypocrisy to last a lifetime.
Tisch forced out NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey over a salacious scandal that now appears increasingly unfounded. Maddrey was accused of manipulating a subordinate’s overtime in exchange for sex. He vehemently denied any quid pro quo, and evidence suggests the allegations don’t hold water.
In fact, his own lawyer acknowledges Maddrey – who is married – had a brief consensual relationship with the accuser, Lt. Quathisha Epps, a “self-professed swinger” now mired in an overtime abuse investigation.
Epps claims Maddrey coerced her into sexual favors and even alleged, without proof, that she bankrolled a Miami vacation for him and his wife – assertions that strain credulity and lack any corroboration…