Jessica Tisch may not have been reformers’ first choice to lead the NYPD, but some say they’ve warmed to the idea since Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani floated it last month.
Mamdani has proposed creating a new billion-dollar civilian-led safety agency, limiting the role of police in responding to certain 911 calls and curbing the NYPD’s disciplinary power. All of those plans would shake up the status quo in an agency that often relies on long-held norms.
The democratic socialist’s pre-election announcement that he’d like to keep Tisch as commissioner may have reassured moderates and the business community, but it raised fears among his more left-leaning supporters that keeping Mayor Eric Adams’ police commissioner would stall their agenda…