NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today released the following statement after Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced that he would keep New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Jessica Tisch on as police commissioner in his administration:
“When I ran for office, I made public safety and reducing crime my North Star because public safety is the prerequisite to prosperity. Coming into office, crime was out of control and shootings were skyrocketing. In the first weeks and months of our administration, we zeroed in on these crimes by announcing our ‘Blueprint to End Gun Violence’ and ‘Blueprint for Community Safety,’ launching our Neighborhood Safety Teams, and forming a Gun Violence Prevention Task Force to go after illegal guns and bring down the number of shootings across our city — and it worked. Today, because of the policies we put in place nearly four years ago and the tireless efforts of the brave men and women of the NYPD, we are in our eighth straight quarter of declining crime across the city and we have removed more than 24,000 illegal guns from our streets. Commissioner Tisch, like her predecessors before her, has continued that stellar work and is implementing the policies and initiatives the Adams administration has pushed for four years. She was a star at the Sanitation Department and has done incredible work at the NYPD. In choosing her to stay on as police commissioner, Mayor-elect Mamdani is recognizing our public-safety efforts were right and that they will continue into the future. We all want a safer city, and keeping Commissioner Tisch in place and supporting our police officers every day with the policies we have implemented, is exactly how we do that.”
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