Every law-abiding New Yorker should applaud Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch for achieving new lows in major crime. Stefano Giovannini for NY Post

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch — backed by the NYPD rank and file — deserves all the credit for New York City’s continued crime drop.

Every law-abiding New Yorker should applaud her for achieving new lows in major crime — with murders hitting an all-time low in April.

The city saw just 19 homicides last month, beating the record of 21 set in 2014 and 2017; year-to-date in 2026 it’s just 76 murders, besting the prior low for the first four months of 86, set in 2018.

Shootings, robberies, grand larceny-auto, burglaries and felony assaults all dropped from April 2025, too, though much crime remains above the 2019 level, before the state’s worst “criminal-justice reforms” kicked in.

The only credit Mayor Zohran Mamdani deserves is for leaving her in charge of the department, even as he keeps making her job tougher — starting with his first act as mayor,…