Politics / Can Zohran Mamdani Get Criminal Justice Reform Done if Jessica Tisch Is His Police Commissioner? NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch speaks alongside NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani after a police officer was shot in the vest in Brooklyn, on July 5, 2026. Serious criminal justice reform, of the like that one would expect from a democratic socialist mayor, has not yet come to pass. Under Adams, she loudly opposed various criminal justice reforms passed in Albany, like the reduction of cash bail and the reform of the discovery process. And once he vowed, during a televised debate, to make Tisch commissioner, those attacks were neutralized.