NEW YORK — The incoming NYPD commissioner on Thursday said she would support Mayor-elect Eric Adams if he decides to push lawmakers to revisit the state’s bail reform legislation, saying that judges should have the “discretion” to keep those who pose a danger to others in law enforcement custody.

Speaking with NY1’s Pat Kiernan, Dean Meminger and Annika Pergament Thursday morning, Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell — whom Adams on Wednesday named New York City’s next police commissioner — said she would defer to him on the issue of bail reform.

State lawmakers in 2019 passed legislation that ended cash bail for a number of low-level crimes and misdemeanors. The law drew harsh criticism from outgoing NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea during his tenure.

Adams, for his part, has said he hopes to see the law revised to include a “dangerousness standard” that would allow judges to decide who should be released after arraignment.

“I definitely think you have to strike a balance,” Sewell said Thursday. “Judges have to have the discretion to be able to keep people who are a danger to the community off the street, but you have to balance that with fairness as well. But as you’re describing, I certainly believe judges should have the ability to say, ‘This person is going to be a danger. We’re going to keep them.’”

“I have no input on the law itself, but I certainly plan to support the mayor-elect in whatever efforts he plans to take for that,” she added.

Sewell also said she hoped to meet with the prosecutors in all five boroughs “on a regular basis” to discuss crime prosecution and other issues.

“Obviously, you can lock people up, but they have to see it to the end, so I hope to have at least a weekly, or maybe even more frequently, if necessary, depending on the circumstances, discussion and communication with the district attorneys,” she said.

Sewell, who has 25 years of policing experience, said she has “worked very closely with the NYPD over the years.”

“[We’ve had] a number of high-profile investigations, and even routine investigations, that we’ve been able to coordinate with the NYPD,” she said. “They have unfailingly offered their resources to us in a variety of different circumstances.”

Adams’ own policing experience — the current Brooklyn borough president served 22 years with the NYPD before he got into politics — will be a positive for Sewell, she said.

“I value his experience, and I think that’s actually an asset for the mayor-elect, but he has made it clear under no uncertain terms that I am the police commissioner,” she said. “I certainly want to collaborate with the mayor, but he has certainly given me the autonomy I need to get this done.”

Asked about the NYPD’s now-defunct plainclothes anti-crime unit, which was disbanded in June 2020 after critics said it employed overly aggressive tactics and was involved in a number of shootings, Sewell said that under Adams, the unit would be reorganized as an “anti-gun unit.”

“The way we can balance that is by training and getting the right officers, with the right temperaments, into the communities, and having the community assist us in the focus of those units,” she explained. “We hope to be able to balance that in that way where we have a community and the right officers trained correctly to be able to go into those units and solve those problems.”