NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch received strong backing Sunday from her former boss — ex-Commish Ray Kelly– as she dramatically moves to clean up the US’ scandal-ridden largest police department. “I have a lot of confidence in the new police commissioner, Jessica Tisch. She worked directly for me,” Kelly said on 77 WABC radio’s ”The Cats Roundtable” show. ”She’s headed two major city agencies. She’s an excellent manager. She can be a pretty stern taskmaster. I think we’re on the right track,” he told host John Catsimatidis. Tisch ousted dozens of NYPD bosses in a shocking Saturday purge, beginning with the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, a week after The Post revealed that the agency’s highest ranking uniformed police officer, Jeffrey Maddrey, was allegedly trading overtime for sex at headquarters. Tisch began her career at the NYPD as a counterterrorism analyst in 2008 under Kelly, the longest serving police commissioner in the department’s history. She eventually became the deputy commissioner of information technology and oversaw the NYPD’s 911 operations before running the city Departments of Information Technology and Telecommunications and Sanitation. Kelly, who served as police commissioner under Mayors David Dinkins and Mike Bloomberg, said there are pressing problems in the NYPD that Tisch is grappling with. “We’ve had tough times in the department. We had the overtime scandal . People are leaving in big numbers,” he said. “The department, having 54,000 people, is always going to have some issues, some problems. But I’m positive about what’s going to happen in the next year,’’ he said. Kelly indicated he has less confidence in Mayor Eric Adams, who faces re-election in 2025 while fighting federal corruption charges at a trial scheduled in the spring. Adams maintains his innocence. The Big Apple’s former top cop touted what he called the city’s 20-year law-and-order “renaissance” under ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Bloomberg, adding, “People sort of took that for granted.” Kelly claimed the city’s quality of life and crime started to worsen under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, and “I don’t think Mayor Adams has done anything to change that.” He said the City Council has swung too far to the left, citing the influence of the Democratic Socialists of America. ”We were a little bit asleep at the switch, and this is what we got,” he said. ”The City Council has been a real problem ... for the city and certainly for the police department. They want to tie the hands of the police. They continue to do it. They certainly hurt the quality of life in New York by doing that. These elections are going to be very important,’’ he said. Kelly, who headed the US Customs Service under then-President Bill Clinton, was bullish about President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House. The former Marine said the nation needed a “course correction” after the border crisis and inflation that occurred during President Biden’s term. “I just can’t believe what happened at the border. There was no explanation why that was going on,” he said. Trump will “send a good signal that there is a new sheriff in town” by ramping up deportations of illegal migrants, particularly criminals,’’ the ex-top cop said. “We need to protect our borders. Otherwise, we won’t have a country,” Kelly said.A look at how some of Trump's picks to lead health agencies could help carry out Kennedy's overhaulDETROIT (AP) — If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation. Economists say companies would have little choice but to pass along the added costs, dramatically raising prices for food, clothing, automobiles, booze and other goods. The president-elect floated the tariff idea, including additional 10% taxes on goods from China, as a way to force the countries to halt the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into the U.S. But his posts Monday on Truth Social threatening the tariffs on his first day in office could just be a negotiating ploy to get the countries to change behavior. High food prices were a major issue in voters picking Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris, but tariffs almost certainly would push those costs up even further. For instance, the Produce Distributors Association, a Washington trade group, said Tuesday that tariffs will raise prices for fresh fruit and vegetables and hurt U.S. farmers when other countries retaliate. “Tariffs distort the marketplace and will raise prices along the supply chain, resulting in the consumer paying more at the checkout line,” said Alan Siger, association president. Mexico and Canada are two of the biggest exporters of fresh fruit and vegetables to the U.S. In 2022, Mexico supplied 51% of fresh fruit and 69% of fresh vegetables imported by value into the U.S., while Canada supplied 2% of fresh fruit and 20% of fresh vegetables. Before the election, about 7 in 10 voters said they were very concerned about the cost of food, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters. “We’ll get them down,” Trump told shoppers during a September visit to a Pennsylvania grocery store. The U.S. is the largest importer of goods in the world, with Mexico, China and Canada its top three suppliers, according to the most recent U.S. Census data. People looking to buy a new vehicle likely would see big price increases as well, at a time when costs have gone up so much that they are out of reach for many. The average price of a new vehicle now runs around $48,000. About 15% of the 15.6 million new vehicles sold in the U.S. last year came from Mexico, while 8% crossed the border from Canada, according to Global Data. Much of the tariffs would get passed along to consumers, unless automakers can somehow quickly find productivity improvements to offset them, said C.J. Finn, U.S. automotive sector leader for PwC, a consulting firm. That means even more consumers “would potentially get priced out of the activity” of buying a new vehicle, Finn said. Hardest hit would be Volkswagen, Stellantis, General Motors and Ford, Bernstein analyst Daniel Roeska wrote Tuesday in a note to investors. Stellantis and VW import about 40% of the vehicles they sell from Canada and Mexico, while it's 30% for GM and 25% for Ford. GM and Stellantis import more than half of their high-profit pickup trucks from the two countries, according to Bernstein. If Trump does impose the tariffs in January, the auto industry would have little time to adjust, putting operating profits at risk for the automakers, Roeska said in an email. “A 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada would severely cripple the U.S. auto industry,” he said. The tariffs would hurt U.S. industrial production so much that “we expect this is unlikely to happen in practice,” Roeska said. The tariff threat hit the stocks of some companies that could be particularly hurt, such as auto manufacturers and Constellation Brands, which sells Modelo and other Mexican beer brands in the United States. But the overall market held relatively steady near records as investors saw Trump’s proposal as more of an opening position for negotiations rather than as a definitive policy. It's not clear how long the tariffs would last if they are implemented, but they could force auto executives to move production to the U.S., which could create more jobs in the long run. But Morningstar analyst David Whiston said in the short term automakers probably won't make any moves because they can't quickly change where they build vehicles. To move to the U.S., they would have to buy equipment and revamp their parts supply chain, which can take years. “I think everyone is going to be in a wait-and-see mode,” Whiston said. Millions of dollars worth of auto parts flow across the borders with Mexico and Canada, and that could raise prices for already costly automobile repairs, Finn said. The Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. said tariffs on tequila or Canadian whisky won’t boost American jobs because they are distinctive products that can only be made in their country of origin. In 2023, the U.S. imported $4.6 billion worth of tequila and $108 million worth of mezcal from Mexico and $537 million worth of spirits from Canada, the council said. “At the end of the day, tariffs on spirits products from our neighbors to the north and south are going to hurt U.S. consumers and lead to job losses across the U.S. hospitality industry just as these businesses continue their long recovery from the pandemic,” the council said in a statement. Electronics retailer Best Buy said on its third-quarter earnings conference call that it runs on thin profit margins, so while vendors and the company will shoulder some increases, Best Buy will have to pass tariffs on to customers. “These are goods that people need, and higher prices are not helpful,” CEO Corie Barry said. Walmart also warned this week that tariffs could force it to raise prices, as did Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who talked with Trump after his call for tariffs, said they had a good conversation about how the countries can work together on the challenges they face. "This is something that we can do, laying out the facts and moving forward in constructive ways. This is a relationship that we know takes a certain amount of working on and that’s what we’ll do,” Trudeau said. Trump's transition team wouldn't comment on the call. Also Monday, Trump turned his ire to China, saying he has “had many talks with China about the massive amounts of drugs, in particular Fentanyl, being sent into the United States – But to no avail.” The Chinese Embassy in Washington cautioned on Monday that there will be losers on all sides if there is a trade war. Trump's threats come as arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico have been falling . The most recent U.S. numbers for October show arrests remain near four-year lows. But arrests for illegally crossing the border from Canada have been rising over the past two years. Much of America’s fentanyl is smuggled from Mexico. Border seizures of the drug rose sharply under President Joe Biden. The tariffs would also throw into doubt the reliability of the 2020 trade deal brokered in large part by Trump with Canada and Mexico, the USMCA, which replaced NAFTA and is up for review in 2026. Trump transition team officials did not immediately respond to questions about what authority he would use, what he would need to see to prevent the tariffs from being implemented and how they would impact prices in the U.S. Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department and Economy Department also had no immediate reaction to Trump’s statements. ___ Rugaber reported from Washington. AP reporters Dee-Ann Durbin in Detroit, Stan Choe and Anne D'Innocenzio in New York, and Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.A Glimpse Into The Expert Outlook On Workday Through 17 Analysts
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has slammed rumours that he has fallen out with playmaker Kevin De Bruyne . The Belgium international has had to settle for substitute appearances in Man City's last five competitive matches after returning from injury last month. De Bruyne was not brought on until the 78th minute of Sunday's 2-0 away defeat against Premier League leaders Liverpool . The Belgian's substitute role has led to talk about whether his lack of playing time is a result of a rift between him and his manager. Speaking after Sunday's game, Jamie Carragher told Sky Sports : "Something is going on with De Bruyne. Something isn't right between those two." Carragher's fellow pundit Gary Neville also described the current situation with De Bruyne as "unusual, bizarre, strange". Guardiola did not mention Carragher and Neville specifically, but he hit back at rumours of falling out in his press conference ahead of Wednesday's meeting with Nottingham Forest. "People say I've got a problem with Kevin," Guardiola told reporters on Tuesday. "Do you think I like to not play with Kevin? That I don't want Kevin to play? "The guy who has the most talent in the final third? I don't want it? That I have a personal problem with him after nine years together? He's delivered to me the biggest success for this club. But he's been injured for five months and two months. "He's 33-years-old. He needs time to find his best, like last season, step by step. He'll try to do it and feel better. I'd love to have Kevin in his prime, at 26 or 27. He would love it, too. But he's not 26 or 27 anymore. "He's had injuries in the past, important and long ones. He's a guy who needs to be physically fit for his space and energy." De Bruyne has not started a Premier League game since he played the full duration of a 2-1 home victory over Brentford on September 14. Guardiola hinted in his press conference that he could be in contention to start against Forest, with the Man City boss admitting that De Bruyne is "closer and even better in the last few days" . De Bruyne has a previous history of enjoying success against Forest after providing two assists in a 2-0 victory when the two sides last faced off in April. Having lost their last four Premier League matches, Man City will head into the midweek fixture in fifth position and 11 points adrift of leaders Liverpool.