NYPD gets a new top cop after months of turmoil. Jessica Tisch is the 2nd woman to lead the force

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Moving to stabilize an administration roiled by investigations, resignations and his own indictment, New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday appointed sanitation chief Jessica Tisch as police commissioner. As sanitation commissioner, she became TikTok famous when she declared in 2022, “The rats don’t run the city, we do.” “I need someone that’s going to take the police department into the next century,” Adams said, praising Tisch as a “visionary” and lauding her track record of improving city operations. Tisch said she believes “very deeply in the nobility of the police and the profession of policing” and is “looking forward to coming home.” Tisch's first job in city government was in the NYPD’s counterterrorism bureau. I’m more into ‘Law & Order’ kind of stuff.” But, she said, Cohen told her: “Trust me, this will be right for you.” As deputy commissioner of information technology from 2014 to 2019, she helped modernize the department while navigating — and pushing back at — criticism of her decision to equip officers with smartphones using the unpopular Windows Phone operating system.