Jessica Tisch sworn in as latest NYPD commissioner

Jessica Tisch was sworn astatine the NYPD’s caller commissioner  Monday, the fourth apical bull to presume the relation during Mayor Adams’ archetypal 3 years successful office.

Tisch, who has served arsenic New York CIty’s sanitation commissioner since April 2022, is nary alien to the nation’s largest constabulary unit — she has worked successful the past arsenic a civilian NYPD employee, archetypal arsenic a counterterrorism analyst, past aboriginal arsenic Deputy Commissioner Of Information Technology.

But she returns to a vastly antithetic scenery starting today, 1 dominated by Adams, who has played an outsized relation successful large constabulary section decisions. He has besides been indicted connected national corruption charges— and adjacent if helium is yet acquitted Tisch could beryllium retired of a occupation if the politician is not re-elected.

While shootings and murders proceed to drop, the metropolis is plagued by continued unprovoked attacks and a consciousness among immoderate New Yorkers that they don’t consciousness safe, careless of what the numbers show.

Police sources accidental they expect Tisch to necessitate apical brass to code down their assertive societal media posture that has seen them knock judges, prosecutors and reporters.

Tisch succeeds Interim NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon, who was progressive successful a high-profile kerfuffle with a apical lawman commissioner astatine the New York Marathon earlier this period but different kept a debased illustration since his Sept. 13 swearing in, lauding cops connected societal media but not granting interviews and deferring to different brass astatine property conferences.

Donlon’s predecessor, Edward Caban, resigned Sept. 12, conscionable implicit a week aft the feds confiscated electronics from Caban and 4 different apical Adams medication officials successful a coordinated early-morning cognition that is portion of a sprawling national probe. Caban’s lawyer has said the feds person assured him Caban is not a people of the probe.

Many wrong NYPD office astatine One Police Plaza, arsenic good arsenic extracurricular observers, believed Caban, the city’s archetypal Latino constabulary commissioner, wasn’t afloat successful charge, with Adams and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks often calling the shots. Banks himself resigned past month.

Adams’ archetypal constabulary commissioner, Keechant Sewell, the archetypal pistillate apical bull successful metropolis history, faced the aforesaid skepticism. She resigned successful June 2023, with constabulary sources saying she had grown bushed of City Hall interference.

Tisch is simply a postgraduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School and is simply a lifelong New Yorker.