NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told rank-and-file officers Wednesday that she and her new boss, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, don’t “agree on everything.”

One area where they appear to disagree is the necessity of arrests for low-level offenses. Such arrests surged 12% this year compared to last as Tisch prioritizes quality-of-life enforcement. Mamdani, meanwhile, campaigned on shifting the department's focus toward “the serious crimes [officers] signed up to join the department to address.”

Tisch took over last November with a promise to prioritize quality-of-life enforcement, including crackdowns on open drug use, prostitution and transit crimes like fare evasion.

In the transit system alone, misdemeanor arrests rose 48% — about 5,300 more than the same period last year, according to

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