We should have known this was coming. When there were shootings in the city at the end of February and Mayor Gabriel J. Campana called a news briefing to assure residents the city is safe, he went the extra mile of inferring that maybe they could have been prevented had City Council embraced a federal grant that would have allowed hiring of more police. He further urged citizens to attend council meetings and push for more surveillance cameras in more places in the city as a crime prevention tool. And, of course, council people got to read about the mayor’s opportunistic call for a different council posture on crime-related initiatives. We wonder how the mayor would have reacted to that spin when he was on council and often casting the “no” vote on proposals of the previous administration. He probably would have reacted the way Gerry Fausnaught di.