City Hall double standard

Mayor Marty Walsh moved with relative dispatch to jettison his Health and Human Services chief, Felix G. Arroyo in the wake of allegations he sexually harassed a female staffer in his department.

The firing follows a monthlong suspension and an internal probe that seemed to satisfy the mayor that this was not a case he wanted to linger on any longer than necessary.

Still pending, however, are a police probe — there are also allegations that Arroyo attempted to intimidate the woman after she went to Human Resources officials — and a complaint filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination which also names the mayor and Arroyo’s chief of staff.

The MCAD will be left to sort out whether city officials acted in good faith in transferring the woman out of Arroyo’s department — a move she claims was, in fact, a demotion.

We are, however, left with something of a double standard within City Hall about who is quickly jettisoned and who remains on “paid leave,” courtesy of the taxpayers.

Yes, still collecting a city paycheck are two suspended top Walsh aides, Kenneth Brissette and Timothy Sullivan, both awaiting their trial in federal court come January on charges they extorted the Boston Calling concert organizers into hiring unneeded union members in 2014.

There are all kinds of thuggish behavior that powerful men are prone to under the guise of the titles they have been given. The Walsh administration ought not to have two standards for dealing with allegations of misconduct within the ranks.