Now You Can Have Your Lousy Fire Commissioner

Sometime in September they’ll hold a press conference surrounded a bunch of union members — SEIU, 32 BJ, any union, it doesn’t matter — and call it a resounding success:

Now the onus falls on City Hall to deliver in five months a program that has taken other cities years to develop, and on which the mayor has placed an increasingly large wager that his early missteps will be forgotten, so long as his centerpiece plan proves a success.