Maria Cramer

Commissioner Tisch, the current head of the N.Y.P.D., said she had agreed to serve in Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s administration.

Zohran Mamdani takes office on Jan. 1 with ambitious plans to rethink policing and some officers angry about his past criticisms. Winning them over could be a key to a successful term.

The New York Police Department has tried to fire 30 officers who failed a psychological exam or a background check. Some say the test is the problem.

New DNA testing linked Michael Benjamin, 57, to the assaults of five women between 1995 and 1997 in southeast Queens, according to the authorities.

The change was one several the department agreed to make to a tool that has been criticized by the City Council and Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee.

The new unit will be the largest of its kind in the United States and its members will receive specialized training, the police commissioner said.

Video of the 2023 collision contradicts a report filed by the officers, who were members of the Community Response Team. The Police Department has since moved to rein in the unit.

Mohammad Abouzaid, 40, hit the woman and her husband, tourists from Germany, near Bryant Park on Wednesday afternoon. Her husband, 55, was injured, the police said.

The number of misconduct reports to a watchdog agency increased 60 percent under Mayor Eric Adams and last year were the highest in a decade, according to a city report.

Nine people have died this year, about half the toll at this time last year. Advocacy and legal groups say the city is still not doing enough to ensure the safety of its detainees.