Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Sunday he met with police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and hopes she will stay on to continue leading the NYPD when he takes office.

“I do want her to stay,” Mamdani told ABC7’s Bill Ritter. “I made that commitment during the election and I continue to believe [that].”

The democratic socialist – who has scrambled to walk back past anti-law enforcement statements including “defund the police” rhetoric – has previously said he’d look to retain Tisch but the commissioner has been mum on if she’d consider working in the Mamdani administration.

Zohran Mamdani speaks in Flushing Meadows. Dennis A. Clark

Mamdani effusively praised the popular commissioner while taking a shot at outgoing Mayor Eric Adams and chaos within the ranks of the NYPD that Tish has

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