Zohran Mamdani: “Commissioner Tisch came into a police department that Mayor…”

“And I made that commitment during the election. That's something that I continue to believe, and I just want to explain the why of it all, which is that when Commissioner Tisch came into a police department that Mayor Adams had stacked the upper echelons of with corruption and incompetence. And she started to root that out, started to deliver accountability, reduce crime across the five boroughs.” (12:19–12:33)

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