Mamdani Keeps Tisch as NYPD Commissioner Amid Calls for Her Removal

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday he would keep Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, rejecting calls from progressive allies to remove her after protests over an ICE shooting. He defended the decision by citing Tisch’s anti-corruption work and what he described as declining crime during their time working together. The pressure followed an October 8 shooting in Marble Hill in which an ICE agent wounded a man during a federal operation. The NYPD was not involved in the shooting, but officers responded to protests that followed. Democratic Socialists of America chapters, congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier and 17 state-level politicians and nominees called for Tisch’s removal unless she ended NYPD assistance to ICE and disbanded the department’s Strategic Response Group. Those demands and allegations about police conduct during protests have not been resolved by findings in the supplied reporting. Mamdani said Tuesday he had no plans to replace Tisch. He credited her with addressing corruption within the department and cited reductions in murders and shootings.