Logic and Proportion Fall, And a Sneak Peek at '22

The past year presented A Tale of Two Cities that was not what Bill de Blasio had in mind when he ran for Mayor on that slogan eight years earlier.

In one of those cities, Mr. de Blasio and the City Council, unconvinced that they had done enough in 2020 to punish the Police Department and its officers, last March released an NYC Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative Draft Plan that among other things called for "a pension-reduction or forfeiture remedy for the most-egregious misconduct cases; for example, where there is death or serious physical injury which creates substantial risk of death or which causes serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ."