NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch on Friday said she recently had a “very direct” meeting with notoriously soft-on-crime Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to make it crystal clear just how badly skyrocketing recidivism is plaguing the Big Apple’s streets and subways.
“I had a very direct and clear meeting with him and his colleagues up in Albany,” Tisch told FOX5’s “Good Day New York” of her upstate meeting with the Bronx Democrat two weeks ago.
“What I can say is I was incredibly clear about the type of problem that we have and how profound it is.”
Heastie — a fierce supporter of the state’s infamous 2019 criminal justice reforms — has repeatedly helped roadblock proposed rollbacks of the controversial, progressive laws.
He has previously insisted that stiffer penalties don’t deter criminals and won’t help drive crime down.
But the NYPD boss said she was optimistic she had — for the first time — hammered home the message to Heastie and his fellow state lawmakers that change is desperately needed in order to crack down on crime.
“Our criminal justice system in New York City, largely because of certain New York state laws, is a revolving door where there are no consequences, not just for crime, but violent crime and repeated violent crime. It is out of all control — and something has to give,” the commish said.
“The good news, I think, is that when I went up to Albany, I sensed that the message had broken through up there with state lawmakers that we need meaningful, substantive changes to these laws that make or render the criminal justice system a revolving door.”
The number of perps busted three or more times for the same major crimes in a single year has spiked more than 150% since 2018, Tisch noted.
“We do not have a surging crime problem, but we have a wild, raging, surging recidivism problem,” she said.
The Post reached out to Heastie about the meeting but didn’t hear back immediately.
Tisch’s remarks about the sit-down came just days after she gave a sweeping address raging against an “unsustainable” revolving door of recidivism driving Big Apple crime, calling out city district attorneys and Albany lawmakers.
The police honcho also revealed the NYPD was creating a new “Quality of Life” division to clamp down on aggressive panhandlers, open air drug use and homelessness.
She announced, too, a multi-approach effort to beef up the dwindling ranks of New York’s Finest, including reinstating a timed-run requirement and a reduced college credit condition.
