Andrew Mitrovica has questions for the Toronto police.

Iagree with Doug Ford. A few weeks ago, he called on Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair to resign. His rationale was that the chief over-stepped his authority when he suggested publicly that he was “disappointed” with the mayor’s conduct immortalized in that infamous crackpipe video.

Blair’s tepid remark doesn’t even remotely constitute a firing offence. But in the bizarro world that Doug and his brother, mayor Rob Ford, inhabit, this is predictable drivel.

To recap: Rob Ford has now admitted to lying repeatedly about his drug use, to smoking crack cocaine, to buying illicit drugs, to being “hammered” in public, and to drinking and driving. And yet, for Doug, none of this means his not so little brother should quit. Bizarro indeed.

Despite this rank hypocrisy, I agree that Blair should resign. But like the mayor he’s “disappointed” by, Blair won’t. Both men — I won’t call them “leaders” because leaders have some meaningful appreciation for, and fidelity to, the now fanciful notion of accountability — are too blinded by their myopic hubris to do the right thing.

Blair should have resigned long ago. He should have resigned when his deputy chief effectively suspended the Charter of Rights and Freedoms during the 2010 G20 summit meeting in Toronto.

Remember that other stain on Toronto’s reputation when more than a thousand peaceful protesters were “kettled” and arrested. (The charges were subsequently dropped.) The kettling — which amounted to the herding of law-abiding citizens like cattle into human corrals manned by baton-wielding police officers, many of whom removed their ID tags — was deemed by Ontario’s police watchdog to be “excessive” and contrary to police practices.

“What occurred over the course of the weekend resulted in the largest mass arrests in Canadian history. These disturbances had a profound impact not only on the citizens of Toronto and Canada generally, but on public confidence in the police as well,” concluded Gerry McNeilly, head of the Office of the Independent Police Review Director.

Like Rob Ford, Blair was haughty and contemptuous of the many voices who insisted before and after McNeilly’s blunt indictment that he should go. Instead, like Rob Ford, he told Torontonians that he wasn’t going anywhere. And like Rob Ford, he hasn’t.

So these two men are now inextricably linked by a sleazy tale of drugs, dealers and deception that will be their defining legacy.

Blair has uncharacteristically kept his mouth shut since his cryptic comments about the crack video and the mayor. He should answer a few questions.

The first involves the ambiguity about what triggered his police force’s pursuit of the crackpipe video.

Court documents suggest Toronto cops launched their probe two days after the American muckraking website, Gawker, and the Toronto Star reported the existence of a video. Citing an anonymous police source, a TV network has claimed, however, that police got wind of the video and the mayor’s starring role in it, via wiretaps prior to media reports.

Let’s go with the Toronto police’s official story as told in court documents. If true, how is it possible that with a budget of nearly $1 billion and 8,046 uniformed and civilian employees, Blair and his police force relied on a few reporters to learn of videotaped evidence that the mayor may be a crack smoker?

It’s clear that once Toronto police belatedly started looking, they looked a lot. They took lots of photos of Mayor Ford often meeting with an alleged drug trafficker at unusual times, at unusual places, exchanging unusual-looking packages.

And not once, not once, did a Toronto police officer act. Why not?

It’s been suggested that perhaps the police were playing a “long game,” in the hunt for bigger quarry. I don’t get this. What bigger quarry could there be than the sitting mayor of Canada’s largest city buying and using illicit drugs? Ford has now confessed to doing both.

Charges may still be laid. The Ford brothers and their few remaining and, to put it charitably, delusional media allies would, no doubt, howl that the charges were politically motivated, tainted by a meddling police chief.

Toronto lawyer Clayton Ruby has said that the failure of Blair’s investigators to do more than watch closely is evidence of a “botched” investigation. Ruby is right.

And like his dismissive response to the legion of G20 critics, Blair’s spokesperson said Ruby “has no idea what he’s talking about.” That’s a crock. Ruby has, for decades, seen and exposed, in and outside court, police ineptitude and incompetence.

Ask yourself: If the police watched you while you met again and again with an alleged drug trafficker as suspicious packages went from his hands to yours, what do you think would ultimately happen?

That is, of course, a rhetorical question.

Still, since you’re sticking around Chief Blair, answer this: Why didn’t it happen to Rob Ford?

That, I suppose, is a rhetorical question, too.