NYC Mayor Eric Adams names Jessica Tisch to head NYPD

[Karah Rucker]

THE LARGEST POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE COUNTRY IS GETTING A NEW HEAD. AND IT’S COMING AS THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING THE PICK IS IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW.

[Mayor Eric Adams // (D) New York City] 

“Today I am announcing the department the new appointment of the Police Commission of the city of New York, Jessica Tisch.”

[Jessica Tisch // Incoming NYPD Commissioner]

“Mayor Adams has been very clear that the priorities are supporting you as you fight crime and disorder, keeping you safe and bringing the department into the next century.”

[Karah Rucker]

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS APPOINTED JESSICA TISCH AS COMMISSIONER OF THE NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT ON WEDNESDAY. TISCH IS CURRENTLY THE CITY’S COMMISSIONER OF SANITATION.

TISCH WILL BE THE SECOND FEMALE COMMISSIONER IN THE DEPARTMENT’S 179-YEAR HISTORY AND THE FOURTH TO SERVE SINCE ADAMS BECAME MAYOR THREE YEARS AGO.

ADAMS WORKED AS AN NYPD OFFICER BEFORE BECOMING MAYOR, BUT IS NOW FACING FEDERAL CHARGES RELATED TO BRIBERY AND VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW AFTER AN INDICTMENT HANDED DOWN IN SEPTEMBER.

FORMER COMMISSIONER EDWARD CABAN RESIGNED IN SEPTEMBER AS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS PROBED THE ADAMS ADMINISTRATION FOR CORRUPTION. CURRENT OUTGOING COMMISSIONER THOMAS DONLON ALSO HAD SEVERAL OF HIS HOMES SEARCHED BY THE FBI.

TISCH IS AN HEIR TO THE LOEWS HOTEL FORTUNE AND SPENT OVER A DECADE WORKING FOR THE NYPD, INCLUDING AS ITS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR I.T.

AS SANITATION COMMISSIONER, SHE SUCCESSFULLY LED ADAMS’S SO-CALLED “TRASH REVOLUTION,” GETTING MORE THAN 70% OF CITY TRASH INTO BINS RATHER THAN SITTING OUT ON THE STREET.

PATRICK HENDRY, PRESIDENT OF THE POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, THE LARGEST UNION REPRESENTING NYPD OFFICERS, SAID IN A STATEMENT, “We are critically understaffed, massively overworked and completely unsupported by a justice system and an oversight regime that care more about punishing cops than helping us get dangerous criminals off the streets. We hope to partner with Commissioner Tisch to make real progress on these issues as quickly as possible.”

TISCH WILL OFFICIALLY ASSUME THE JOB ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH.

FOR STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS, I’M KARAH RUCKER.

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