In another eyebrow-raising moment on the campaign trail, New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani boldly declared that NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch will “follow [his] lead” once he’s in City Hall — even though she has publicly opposed many of his radical criminal justice proposals.
Speaking on a podcast, Mamdani admitted he has not actually spoken to Tisch about staying on under his administration, yet insisted “everyone will follow my lead” once he becomes mayor. He suggested Tisch has supported some ideas he backs, like the creation of a new “Department of Public Safety,” while brushing off her long record of rejecting policies such as ending cash bail and scrapping the city’s gang database…