That “never forget” admonition after 9/11 contains within itself the concession that, over time, things are forgotten.

The illegal weed shop around the corner from my office in the Financial District got raided last week, as people wearing jackets marked POLICE rifled through its wares.

Eric Adams keeps talking about how bad things are in his city and how much worse “this madness” is certain to get as “eventually this was going to come to a neighborhood near you, and it is.”