NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday that the city’s police force has crime under control and doesn’t need the National Guard, law-enforcement sources said.
The pair met for about 30 minutes behind closed doors at One Police Plaza in Manhattan, with the tet-a-tet occurring as President Trump has taken a keen interest in boosting public safety in the city — including by potentially deploying additional boots on the ground in the five boroughs.
The president has already sent armed National Guard troops to crime-riddled Washington, DC.
But the Big Apple’s top cop politely pointed out to Bondi that city crime is at record lows, sources told The Post.
Tisch stated that overall shootings and shooting victims in Gotham have dropped to all-time lows so far this year, while also discussing the NYPD’s effort to tackle quality-of-life crimes, sources said.
In the NYPD’s push to keep down crime — which still has serious, deadly hot spots in areas such as The Bronx — Tisch asked Bondi about getting the authority for the NYPD to take down possibly dangerous drones instead of relying on federal agencies to handle, according to sources.
Bondi — who was apparently in town to crow about the feds’ plea deal with a notorious Mexican drug lord — also rubbed elbows with Deputy Commissioner for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry.
She and Daughtry spoke for about 10 minutes in Brooklyn, where the attorney general held a press conference on Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada’s guilty plea..
It was not immediately clear what the two talked about.
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