Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday, Nov. 19, the appointment of Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch to serve as New York City police commissioner in his incoming administration commencing Jan. 1. As the 48th commissioner of the NYPD, he said Tisch has rooted out corruption in the upper echelons of the department and led a department-wide focus on accountability and transparency, while delivering historic reductions in violent crime.

The Mamdani Transition team said under the commissioner’s leadership, New York City has achieved the fewest shooting incidents and shooting victims in recorded history over the first ten months of the year, with murders down nearly 20 percent citywide year-to-date.

They said more than 4,800 illegal guns have been removed from the city’s streets i

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