New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Nov. 19 that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has agreed to remain in her role.
Her decision comes after Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist who once called for defunding the New York Police Department, said he would ask Tisch to stay on after he was elected.
“I have admired her work cracking down on corruption in the upper echelons of the police department, driving down crime in New York City, and standing up for New Yorkers in the face of authoritarianism,” Mamdani, who during his campaign apologized to the NYPD for his defund comments, said in a statement….