Benjamin Tisch’s shot at Mamdani during the Met Council gala comes just two weeks after his sister accepted Mamdani’s offer to remain at the helm of the NYPD.
“The two of us will not shy away from the fact that we hold disagreements on certain issues … but I also believe that these disagreements are not only reconcilable, but they are the sign of a healthy partnership to come,” the mayor-elect said in an interview with The News last month.
These are the kind of ghouls you want to work with if your plan is to sabotage yourself out of the gate. 
Yeah great point firing her should be a priority when he has the legal authority to do so.
Would you want your enemies to know you’re coming for them? Or would you prefer them to be at ease?
I’m agnostic on the matter. It’s to be determined as far as I’m concerned. Some people say it’s to avoid a kind of first strike from the police, others say it’s obvious lib shit. Could literally be either at this point so all we’re doing is arguing about something we’ll have definitive evidence for soon enough.
That’s fair. It’s just that all the arguments for why it doesn’t matter that he’s been walking back rhetoric tend to feel like “he’s hiding his power level”. It makes much more sense that he was never actually very radical, and some of the people who supported him were, so that radicalism was projected onto him (not just by his supporters). I suppose, as you say, we’ll see.
He should have simply not chosen to rehire her. Every mayor chooses their own police commissioner, he just chose the continuity
I’m not an expert but I’m pretty sure you don’t get to hire and fire people before your statutory term in office. Eric Adams is still the Mayor until the end of the month.
He’s planted his flag in the sand, he announced his intention to hire her early for a reason
People are doubting your proposed reason. It’s like you didn’t even read my original comment. Reasserting your take on his motivations does not settle the matter.