We expect Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stand firm against House hopeful Darializa Avila Chevalier and other blockheads now demanding the head of Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who’s doing her job in keeping the city safe.

The Democratic Socialist extremists demand the mayor ax the commish over last week’s ICE shooting, as if the NYPD were somehow at fault: They apparently expect cops to arrest feds who are lawfully doing their duty, or at least to get out of the way if lefties want to riot over federal law enforcement.

This, when major crime has hit historic lows in murders and shootings — progress Mamdani is happy to own and knows he couldn’t get under any police commissioner the left would like.

Yes, the mayor is paying lip service to his old anti-cop agenda, insisting that plans are in progress to disband the Strategic Response Group, which is vital to policing demonstrations and handling large-scale chaos.

He’s also happily denouncing ICE for hauling in suspected gangbanger Oscar Belgal in Marble Hill in an incident that would never have been so confrontational if the city and state didn’t make it so hard for the feds to arrest criminal illegal immigrants in the first place.

New York’s pro-criminal “sanctuary” policies have needlessly left 16,000 perps linked to 52,000 crimes still walking our streets, reports Homeland Security.  

And the crowd behind the sanctuary madness thinks the NYPD should actively interfere with ICE efforts to re-apprehend these menaces.

Of course, DSA cadres are also enraged that “traitor” Mamdani dared attend an Oct. 7 memorial, admitted he can’t arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and let cops keep the peace during radical protests after Belgal’s apprehension.

The pro-Palestinian radicals at Within Our Lifetime slammed Mamdani’s plan to combat antisemitism, whining it just bankrolls “Zionist propaganda.”

These unhinged antisemites also wax obscene about Tisch being a Jewish woman; the social-media posts get truly vile.

Mamdani’s holding the line — while tossing the left a bone by ordering an audit of the NYPD’s use of force.

That move may come back to haunt him, since he’s installed cop-haters elsewhere in city government who could use this chance to pursue their agenda at the expense of his.

It’s easy for Chevalier & Co. to posture: Mamdani is the one voters will punish if crime rises because he takes their advice.

Heck, the pro-crime steps he has taken (such as nixing plans to hire more cops) are already risky enough; If he tosses many more bones to the extremists, he may yet force Tisch to resign as a matter of conscience — and then the whole city will pay for his allegiance to his base.