The Police Commission is preparing a rare evaluation of DPA director Paul Henderson after a whistleblower lawsuit revived toxic-workplace allegations. That is news, but the bigger story is that San Francisco appears to review key public-safety leaders only after a crisis.

A former fire marshal helped write San Francisco’s high-rise sprinkler mandate and is now marketing consulting services around exemptions. We can’t call that corruption on the public facts alone, but it sure looks like revolving-door government — and it’s exactly the kind of thing that destroys trust in City Hall.