For Bill de Blasio, if it weren’t for double standards, there might be none at all. The New York City mayor is bent on firing several thousand police officers and firefighters who committed what he considers an unpardonable sin.

Their offense was so irredeemable that de Blasio was willing to abandon the streets of his fair city, devoid of adequate police enforcement, rather than allow these “renegade” police officers and their firefighting cohorts to stay on the job.