“I look forward to working with Commissioner Jessica Tisch to deliver genuine public safety in New York City. 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,” he said.

“Together, we will deliver a city where rank-and-file police officers and the communities they serve alike are safe, represented and proud to call New York their home,” he went on to add.

Similarly, Tisch said: “Thanks to the men and women of the NYPD, the strategies we deployed this year have delivered historic reductions in crime.”

She continued: “I’ve spoken to Mayor-elect Mamdani several times, and I’m ready to serve with honor as his police commissioner. That’s because he and I share many of the same public safety goals for New York City: lowering crime, making communities safer, rooting out corruption and giving our officers the tools, support and resources they need to carry out their noble work.”

The announcement received support from state officials, with the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, saying: “[New York police commissioner] Tisch has been a steadfast partner in driving crime down to historic lows and improving public safety across the city. I’m glad she’ll be continuing that work under mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.”

Similarly, the New York attorney general, Letitia James, said: “I’m glad to see [New York police commissioner] Jessica Tisch will continue her work as commissioner under our Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Under her leadership, murders are down to record lows, and our city is safer than it’s been in years. I look forward to our continued work protecting New Yorkers.”

Ahead of Wednesday’s public announcement, Tisch circulated an internal email to the entire police department confirming that she had accepted the offer to remain police commissioner.

“Now, do the mayor-elect and I agree on everything? No, we don’t. But in speaking with him, it’s clear that we share broad and crucial priorities: the importance of public safety, the need to continue driving down crime, and the need to maintain stability and order across the department. We also agree that you deserve the city’s respect and support,” her email said, according to outlets that reviewed it.

Tisch said that after “several conversations” with Mamdani in which they disagreed on some issues but remained aligned in their overall goals, she will remain “a fierce advocate … for this department”.

“You know how I operate: I don’t mince words. When I say something, I mean it. And that is not going to change,” she wrote in the email.

Meanwhile, Mamdani told ABC7’s Up Close on Sunday that he had met with Tisch last week, saying: “The conversation was more about what it can look like to deliver public safety and what it could look like, especially without the distractions that we have seen over the last few years.”

In a separate interview with Pix11 on Wednesday, Mamdani said he has also instructed Tisch to “ensure no officers are assisting with the actions of ICE”. His comments came as White House “border czar” Tom Homan vowed to increase ICE operations across the city.

Over the years, the former Queens assemblyman repeatedly called for defunding the New York police department, at one point describing the institution as “wicked and corrupt”. On the campaign trail, however, Mamdani worked to distance himself from those earlier statements, saying they were “clearly out of step” with his current views.

In July, Mamdani said, “I am not defunding the police. I am not running to defund the police,” adding that he was a “candidate who is not fixed in time, one that learns and one that leads, and part of that means admitting as I have grown”.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine working overnights and weekends (the craziest shifts) every single weekend and what does that to your mental and physical health.

Doctors and nurses do it. You know there’s this thing called shift work, right? Not everyone puts their pajamas on at 9pm.

Yes and did you know more medical errors and malpractice suits have occured due to excessive shift work and exhausted resident doctors and nurses? I think there’s a requirement now that limits overtime because our hospitals are understaffed because demand is so high. I know for a fact homeless people go to the ER just to stay somewhere warm overnight. Sometimes elderly go there to get someone to talk to. We have the others who use the ER as primary fare because they are uninsured and know they don’t have to pay the bill. We have illegals there too. Lots of random cases of people abusing the hospital system clogging up doctors and nurses time and making ER waiting room time longer than it needs to be

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize Mayor-elect Mamdani has a plan to eliminate the NYPD overtime budget. That would have a substantial economic impact on every one of the NYPD’s 34,000 officers. Officers would, and should leave if the mayor actively takes money from them. As officers leave, the burden of policing NYC falls on a smaller force. Why would officers work overtime to make up for the departures if they aren’t going to get overtime pay?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/nyregion/nypd-mamdani-expectations.html

Overtime isn't an entitlement. The NYPD budget is enormous and bloated. Cuts ought to start somewhere.

Overtime is coded slavery. Most of that money goes to taxes. It’s better to have weekends at home with your family and getting decent pay for 40 hours/week then working overtime as if that’s something to brag about. America is so behind Europe and Canada when it comes to work life balance

I’ve been out of school for a long time, has teaching about slavery changed? Were slaves highly compensated if they worked a lot more? There are hard charging officers out there voluntarily taking overtime and provided a much needed service.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine working overnights and weekends (the craziest shifts) every single weekend and what does that to your mental and physical health.

Doctors and nurses do it. You know there’s this thing called shift work, right? Not everyone puts their pajamas on at 9pm.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize Mayor-elect Mamdani has a plan to eliminate the NYPD overtime budget. That would have a substantial economic impact on every one of the NYPD’s 34,000 officers. Officers would, and should leave if the mayor actively takes money from them. As officers leave, the burden of policing NYC falls on a smaller force. Why would officers work overtime to make up for the departures if they aren’t going to get overtime pay?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/nyregion/nypd-mamdani-expectations.html

Overtime isn't an entitlement. The NYPD budget is enormous and bloated. Cuts ought to start somewhere.

Overtime is coded slavery. Most of that money goes to taxes. It’s better to have weekends at home with your family and getting decent pay for 40 hours/week then working overtime as if that’s something to brag about. America is so behind Europe and Canada when it comes to work life balance

Yeah right. Overtime is awful, does not pay, and is totally not abused by cops. https://abc7ny.com/post/nypd-lt-quathisha-epps-sheds-light-departments-overtime-abuse-scandal-exclusive-interview/16009777

Read that and go away.

Anonymous wrote:Imagine working overnights and weekends (the craziest shifts) every single weekend and what does that to your mental and physical health.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize Mayor-elect Mamdani has a plan to eliminate the NYPD overtime budget. That would have a substantial economic impact on every one of the NYPD’s 34,000 officers. Officers would, and should leave if the mayor actively takes money from them. As officers leave, the burden of policing NYC falls on a smaller force. Why would officers work overtime to make up for the departures if they aren’t going to get overtime pay?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/nyregion/nypd-mamdani-expectations.html

Overtime isn't an entitlement. The NYPD budget is enormous and bloated. Cuts ought to start somewhere.

Overtime is coded slavery. Most of that money goes to taxes. It’s better to have weekends at home with your family and getting decent pay for 40 hours/week then working overtime as if that’s something to brag about. America is so behind Europe and Canada when it comes to work life balance

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t realize Mayor-elect Mamdani has a plan to eliminate the NYPD overtime budget. That would have a substantial economic impact on every one of the NYPD’s 34,000 officers. Officers would, and should leave if the mayor actively takes money from them. As officers leave, the burden of policing NYC falls on a smaller force. Why would officers work overtime to make up for the departures if they aren’t going to get overtime pay?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/nyregion/nypd-mamdani-expectations.html

Overtime isn't an entitlement. The NYPD budget is enormous and bloated. Cuts ought to start somewhere.

Overtime is coded slavery. Most of that money goes to taxes. It’s better to have weekends at home with your family and getting decent pay for 40 hours/week then working overtime as if that’s something to brag about. America is so behind Europe and Canada when it comes to work life balance