As Chicago braces for a surge of military troops, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday she is “revolted” by the presence of the National Guard on big city streets.
“As a lifelong New Yorker, I am revolted by the idea of the militarization of our streets,” Jessica Tisch said during a breakfast at the Citizens Budget Commission. “I will be very clear with anybody, all of you, the attorney general, anyone who wants to talk to me about this that the NYPD, we’ve got this. We don’t need or want the federal government’s help here in that way.”
Tisch said putting troops on the streets of New York or other big cities would introduce “chaos and disorder and confusion” that would be counter-productive to the goal of reducing crime…