According to the city’s independent inspector general, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hasn’t paid for the security expense that occurred during his presidential campaign and misused his security detail for his guests or his family’s benefit. Margaret Garnett, Commissioner of the city’s Department of Investigation, a de Blasio appointee, issued a report (pdf) Thursday detailing the mayor or his family member’s misuse of public sources the department found in an investigation started from August 2019. “No reasonable person disputes that the mayor of New York City should have security protection and that providing such protection, consistent with the city’s ethics rules, is in the interest of the city,” the report states. “However, because of the nature of protective work (to include both the inevitability of idle time and the intimacy of the relationship between detail and protectee over time), the provision of a standing security detail is potentially …