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NYPD Deputy Chief John Cassidy made a couple of telling, or at least interesting, remarks. Asked by Vacca how crashes not involving death or serious injury are handled, Cassidy replied that the local patrol officer notes the location of the crash, then “fill[s] in the appropriate boxes.” Explaining departmental outreach, Cassidy said NYPD meets regularly with DOT staffers, including the “bicycle types.”

Sometimes things are just exactly as bad as you assume.

After injured cyclist Michelle Matson completed her testimony — NYPD stopped investigating the hit-and-run crash that put Matson and her boyfriend in the hospital, telling them the owner of the car had an alibi — a nonplussed Peter Vallone said NYPD should not act as defense counsel for drivers.

Which is more shocking: the correct use of “nonplussed” or the NYPD helping a bad driver escape culpability for seriously injuring someone?

We’ll set aside the fact that Cohen made (and his editors missed) the hilarious Freudian slip of using the word “approbation” (meaning approval) instead of the presumably intended “opprobrium” (meaning harsh criticism) to define Obama’s stance on Wall Street. It’s ironic and darkly amusing on multiple levels. Those 180-degree turns are tough on guys like Cohen, and these sorts of things just slip out, apparently.