"On a walk through Queens with a City Council member in 2022, Jessica Tisch noticed an abundance of trash scattered on traffic islands, step streets, and greenways. Ms. Tisch, who had just started her tenure as the city's sanitation commissioner, asked why these particular areas were so littered. The reason was infuriating. City Hall had issued a rule back in 1983 that gave each agency responsibility for maintaining its own properties - leaving refuse to accumulate in no-man's-lands."
"The public administrator and scion to one of New York's most powerful families rapidly ascended the city's bureaucracy to lead the nation's largest police department last year, a position she has described as her dream job, despite never having served as a uniformed officer. Ms. Tisch's relentless drive to modernize the NYPD and other agencies has drawn praise from former New York mayors and police commissioners across multiple administrations."
Jessica Tisch identified widespread litter on Queens traffic islands and step streets, traced it to a 1983 City Hall rule assigning agencies responsibility for their own properties, and secured $14 million to create a unit to clean 1,700 neglected locations. She rose through city ranks to become New York Police Commissioner without prior uniformed service. Her modernization efforts and anti-corruption drive earned praise from former mayors and police commissioners. She and mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani disagree on the causes of violent crime and on approaches to address it, raising potential leadership tensions.
Read at The Christian Science Monitor
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