{"id":335006,"date":"2025-10-27T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/335006\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:14:14","slug":"mamdani-insists-tisch-will-follow-my-lead-on-criminal-justice-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/335006\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani insists Tisch will ‘follow my lead’ on criminal-justice reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lefty New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran\u00a0Mamdani\u00a0<\/a>says NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch will fall behind his vision for criminal-justice reforms, insisting that if he wins the race, \u201ceveryone will follow\u201d his lead.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Hell Gate podcast<\/a> Friday, Mamdani, 34, was confronted with concerns that Tisch would stand against the type of reforms the Democratic Socialist and his supporters are pushing for, given her previous positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cLots of people who support your candidacy care about criminal-justice reform and reforming the NYPD, and for the past year, she has stood to thwart that,\u201d host Christopher Robbins reminded Mamdani as the host asked for an explanation as to why the frontrunner said he would keep Tisch on board<\/a> if elected.<\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani defends his decision to keep NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on board if he wins the New York City mayoral race. Hell Gate\/Youtube<\/p>\n

Mamdani quickly defended his decision by claiming that Tisch had already been working to accomplish some of the ideas he was pushing, including the formation of a Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n

But Robbins still appeared skeptical, as Tisch has been a vocal opponent of some criminal-justice reforms<\/a>, claiming last month that spikes in crime were due to the changes passed by ex Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n

The police commissioner has also backed the decision to keep the city\u2019s controversial gang database active, as well as pushed for a crackdown on low-level offenses and opposed bail and judicial-discovery reform, as Robbins and his fellow hosts pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo she\u2019s going to reverse her position on all those things?\u201d Robbins asked Mamdani skeptically. \u201cShe\u2019s going to follow your lead in City Hall?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tisch has previously blamed the type of criminal reform Mamdani is pushing for as a cause of crime spikes in the city. LP Media<\/p>\n

Mamdani replied, \u201cI think everyone will follow my lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be the mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani also tried to shut down worries that his relationship with Tisch would be a repeat of the fallout between former Mayor Bill De Blasio and ex-NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton<\/a>, the latter of whom resigned after a series of spats over policing policies.<\/p>\n

Despite Mamdani\u2019s claim that Tisch would be on board with his leadership, the candidate admitted he had yet to directly speak to the police commissioner about continuing under his administration if he wins.<\/p>\n

Mamdani admitted that he has not spoke with Tisch privately since the summer. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t had a private conversation with her on that,\u201d Mamdani told CNN on Sunday<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Mamdani said he had not spoken to Tisch one-on-one since July. The police commissioner has meanwhile avoided making any comments on the mayoral race.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s signature policing policy, creating the Department of Public Safety, would require Tisch\u2019s full support to roll out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lefty New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran\u00a0Mamdani\u00a0says NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch will fall behind his vision for criminal-justice…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":335007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12939,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,7207,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-335006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jessica-tisch","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","18":"tag-police","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115443483566349531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}