Zohran Mamdani accused of ‘laundering’ defund-the-police past by toying with keeping NYPD Commish Tisch if elected mayor

Socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani was accused of “laundering” his vocal defund-the-police stances by cynically toying with keeping tough-on-crime Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner if elected. The simultaneous behind-the-scenes and public pushes to keep Tisch comes as many Big Apple elites hope Mamdani — who trounced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary and...