Andrew Cuomo stated on Sunday he would hold Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner if elected mayor.
“I believe Commissioner Tisch has finished a very, actually good job,” Cuomo stated of New York Metropolis’s high cop throughout an look on CBS’s “The Level with Marcia Kramer.”
“I might say off the bat I might ask her to remain,” he stated.
Kramer had requested Cuomo which high officers or company heads in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration he would take into account conserving if the ex-governor wins the race for Metropolis Corridor.
Cuomo, who misplaced the Democratic mayoral major to Zohran Mamdani in June, continues to be working on the unbiased “Struggle and Ship” poll line.
Entrance-runner Mamdani has stated he was “actively contemplating” conserving Tisch.
Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, when requested if he would hold Tisch, instructed Pix 11 on Friday, “Completely.”
Public security has been a serious challenge within the marketing campaign.
Cuomo has proposed including 5,000 law enforcement officials to the power.
Sliwa vowed so as to add 7,000 cops.
Mamdani has in the meantime been scrambling to distance himself from his statements in 2020 calling for defunding the police and labeling officers “racist, anti-queer and a menace to public security.”
“What we’d like is to #defund the NYPD,” he wrote on X on the time.
Mamdani has since apologized for the “language” he used and now claims he now not considers officers racist and is towards defunding the police, although he has not referred to as for rising the power.
He has proposed a brand new metropolis Division of Group Security to assist mentally unwell New Yorkers and bolster crime-prevention applications, thus relieving law enforcement officials of addressing the “frayed social security internet” as an alternative of great crime.
As for Cuomo and Tisch, the pair haven’t at all times seen eye to eye.
Tisch has blamed state criminal-justice reforms permitted by then-Gov. Cuomo, that took impact in 2020 — such because the “Increase the Age” regulation, which upped the age of felony duty from 16 to 18 — for making a “consequence-free atmosphere” for crime-committing youths.
“For my part, crime went up because of the drastic adjustments we see in our felony justice legal guidelines in New York Metropolis,” she stated final month.
