The post-election question on everyone’s lips has finally been answered: NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch will remain in her role when Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani takes office Jan. 1.

Tisch’s reappointment is a relief for the millions of New Yorkers concerned that Mamdani has not shed his old “defund the police” ideas.

On her watch, crime has come down for the first time in years.

But Tisch’s acceptance of the job is the beginning, not the end, of her potential conflicts with Mamdani.

The mayor-elect and the commissioner will doubtless soon clash on myriad issues — and Tisch may not be long for the post after all.

The first thing to recognize about Tisch’s decision is that it confirms what we already knew: She’s a consummate civil servant, dedicated first and foremost to the good of her city.

Her career is a testimony to that fact: Despite coming from wealth, she worked her way up through the NYPD ranks.

She then took the unglamorous job of Mayor Eric Adams’ sanitation commissioner.

In that role, she managed to get New Yorkers to

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