Earlier this year, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch frankly admitted to city political and business leaders that the department faced a crisis by losing so many experienced officers through retirements and resignations.

The difference several months and a renewed push for new police officers can make was on display Wednesday as a smiling Tisch swore in nearly 1,100 recruits at the police academy in College Point, Queens. It's the largest class in close to 10 years and proof, Tisch said, of the NYPD's resurgence and resilience after a yearslong wave of police leaving the department.

"Today is a defining moment for the New York City Police Department and New York City," Tisch said in her address to the new recruits, who will be undergoing six months of training before hitting the street

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