NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Wednesday she agreed to stay on the job to lead the nation’s largest police department, ending weeks of speculation about whether she would have a role in the new administration of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani, who has expressed views that are starkly different from the commissioner on important policing issues, signaled during the mayoral campaign that he intended to keep Tisch, 44, as the head of the NYPD . On Wednesday, he announced she had agreed to continue to serve in the job as the city’s 48th commissioner, a post she has occupied since November 2024. Overseeing an enormous department, the police commissioner's job is a key role and a visible one.

"I have admired her work cracking down on corruption in the upper echelons of the polic

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