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He is not worthy of defending. He is not worthy of the benefit of the doubt. He’s not worthy of another chance.

What Mr. Ford is is hard bloody work, and after months of duplicity, he has managed to squander the public trust. And with each new low he attains — the bar is now well below the ground — he exhausts even the residue of goodwill that remained for him even after the last of the trust had gone.

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On page 118, Toronto police say a former member of the mayor’s staff told detectives the mayor was “bawling” when he learned he could no longer coach high school football; on page 135 police say Mr. Ford called staff in tears from his father’s gravesite; on page 155 he is accused of calling a taxi driver a “Paki;” and, on the next page, detectives reveal they were told he called out to a female security guard he was “going to eat her box.”

Such embarrassing entries, guzzled by the world’s media and late-night comedians, are puzzling when read against the document’s pro forma opening: on page 2, detectives say the document was prepared to justify a search of property belonging to two men, neither of whom is Rob Ford.

Mr. Ford is referenced 2,049 times in the document. One of the men charged in the case, Jamshid Bahrami, is named only 184 times. The other man charged, Alexander Lisi, is named 2,029 times.

The Fords — the mayor and his city councillor brother, Doug — expressed their views on why, with Doug accusing Police Chief Bill Blair of a conspiracy aimed at regime change; of wanting to “put a political bullet right between the mayor’s eyes.”