Newly sworn-in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani quietly crippled what could be the biggest stopgap for his whacky policy ideas.

Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported Friday that Mamdani downgraded NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who will now report to the deputy mayor instead of Mamdani — a break from longstanding practice. (RELATED: Letitia James Butchers Zohran Mamdani’s Name When Swearing Him In)

“A source intimately familiar with City Hall politics and practice tells me that one of the impacts of this downgrade is a literal change of Mamdani’s day-to-day as mayor. For anyone who has ever covered City Hall or followed the Mayor’s day, the source says, the Mayor sits down one-on-one with the Police Commissioner first thing every morning, emulating the president’s meeting with his national security advisor and receiving the morning intelligence briefing,” Klippenstein reported.

In other words, it seems the deputy mayor will essentially function as Tisch’s complaint box, and Tisch will no longer have as direct a line to Mamdani. Another NYPD source noted that it gives some political power to the deputy mayor, Dean........

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