NEW YORK (AP) New York City Mayor Eric Adams appointed sanitation chief Jessica Tischas as police commissioner on Wednesday in an effort to stabilize a government rocked by investigations, resignations, and his own indictment. She will be the second woman in the high-profile, high-pressure position. She is a stalwart of the city administration and a former NYPD executive.
After a turbulent period marked by former commissioner Edward Caban’s departure in September due to a federal probe, the move strengthens the leadership of the country’s largest police department at a crucial moment. Thomas Donlon, his temporary replacement, revealed a few days later that the FBI had searched him as well.
Tisch, a 43-year-old Harvard graduate from a wealthy New York family, has been employed by the city for 16 years and has held executive positions in multiple departments. When she said in 2022, “The rats don’t run the city, we do,” she rose to fame on TikTok as the sanitation commissioner.
Although Tisch has never been a police officer, she is also not an outsider.
She began her career in city government in the counterterrorism unit of the New York Police Department. In her role as director of planning and policy, she contributed to the development of the department’s post-9/11 security infrastructure by deploying mobile radiation detectors and creating a digital information-sharing mechanism that provided immediate access to license plate readers and surveillance cameras.
She promoted the use of cellphones and body-worn cameras as deputy commissioner for information technology. She also changed 911 dispatching, implemented an acoustic gunshot detection system, and collaborated with the city’s transportation agency to enable police radios in the subway.
Last year, Tisch told a Harvard alumni journal, “Once I started, I never wanted to stop.”
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