NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the city's current police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, has agreed to remain in the post, a major coup for the incoming mayor as he moves to assuage concerns over his past criticism of the Police Department.

"I have admired her work cracking down on corruption in the upper echelons of the police department, driving down crime in New York City, and standing up for New Yorkers in the face of authoritarianism," the democratic socialist, who once called to defund the department, said in a statement.

Tisch's decision to remain commissioner could provide comfort to city business leaders and others who worried that Mamdani's criticism of the department at the height of Black Lives Matter protests would translate into r

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