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.
The meeting comes as Trump has honed in on fighting crime in urban centers across the nation.
The GOP president signed an executive order Monday in a bid to force cities to stop cashless bail for criminal suspects by withholding federal funds from localities who defy him.
The executive order gives Bondi 30 days to compile a list of jurisdictions that “substantially eliminated cash bail” ahead of trial for “crimes that pose a clear threat to public safety and order.”
Controversial bail-reform laws in New York went into effect in 2020 and largely eliminated bail for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, though not for violent crimes such as murders and rapes.
“It started in New York, and it’s been a horrible thing for crime,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday, referring to the state’s lax bail laws.
Trump has signaled he’s willing to deploy National Guard troops to Gotham as part of a focus on tackling urban city crime.
“I think Chicago will be our next [stop], and then we’ll help with New York,” he said in the Oval Office Friday.
Big Apple officials earlier this month hailed shattering previous lows for shootings and gunshot victims since the NYPD started keeping track of such data at the start of the CompStat era in 1993.
Overall, major crime in New York City in the first seven months has steadily decreased in each of the last three years – in line with trends across the country after violence spiked in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But this year’s overall crime figures are still far behind compared to pre-pandemic numbers dating back to 2019.
The NYPD did not immediately return an email seeking comment on the meeting between Tisch and Bondi.
