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[–] 8 points 22 hours ago* (2 children)

My only (so default biggest) issue with Mamdani is he kept Jess Tisch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Tisch

She's the nepo daughter of the Lowes CEO which somehow was good enough to become NYPD commissioner under Eric Addams.

If there was ever a reason to keep her, it's getting NYPD to arrest ICE. If that doesn't happen here, I can't think of a valid reason to keep her over someone willing to do reforms.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 22 hours ago*

    Yeah that's totally fair. My only slight defense is that maybe Mamdani thinks he'd end up losing that fight because NYPD is a completely crazy and heavily armed organization with all sorts of ability to cause absolute chaos in the city, and I do think that's what they'd try to do if Mamdani was coming for them.

    But even then I think that's a mistake. Appeasing violent bullies is no way to live.

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  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago*

    If that doesn’t happen here, I can’t think of a valid reason to keep her over someone willing to do reforms.

    Politically this is gift to Mamdani that she holds the position:

    • He didn't appoint her, so he has low risk of keeping her
    • It can make him look apollitical that he is willing to keep on staff from the previous administration and not act purely on political grounds
    • He earns political points, influence, and support from the rich family because he did not remove her
    • She knows she has a political target on her back, so she's incentivized to keep him happy carrying out his mandates
    • When NYPD has a scandal, he can immediately point to her, and her leadership, and fire/prosecute her for it
    • When the removal finally does happen he'll score points with his base for removing yet another relic of the Adams administration and be able to appoint a reformer
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