Tisch, 43, the Harvard-educated scion of a wealthy New York family, has worked for the city for 16 years, holding leadership roles in several agencies. As sanitation commissioner, she became TikTok famous when she declared in 2022, “The rats don’t run the city, we do.”

Jessica Tisch leads the city's $1.9 billion sanitation department and served as a deputy police commissioner for technology.

Tisch, who has never served as a police officer, worked in a civil role within the department for over a decade. She will be the second-ever woman to serve as the NYPD commissione