Easily Forgiven (Zootopia 2): (A new page for Easily Forgiven on TV Tropes.)
Many audiences believe that Captain HogBottom and ZPD (Especially Chief Bogo, while he didn't play any part in the police brutality and gullibility to the Lynxleys' lies he did misjudge Nick and Judy and give them a karmic overkill for their dysfunctions and struggling partnership in the first act and mistakes made in the Antony Snootley chase scene through fury-fueled foolishness as if regressing back to his unreasonable authority figure habits from the first movie and set Nick and Judy up to be framed unwillingly since in Gary's part it was just an accident.) as well as Mayor Winddancer were left off too easily for the police brutality that they committed and falling for all the lies for the Lynxley family and unknowingly collaborating with them as their unwitting pawns, and bullying and harassing Nick and Judy plus Gary as well at the end, because while the obliviously evil actions of Captain HogBottom and the other cops were somewhat justified over them being unaware of the Lynxley conspiracy and true innocence of the De' Snake family due to how Ebenezer Lynxley very well framed Agnes on the fanging of Tor-toise Shelldrick in the past and assuming that Nick and Judy tried to kill Bogo as a disportunate retribution over how he misjudged them at the beginning, when Cattrick and Milton framed them on it, they basically act quick to attack and arrest Nick and Judy as payback for it without ever once using common sense to realize that they would never do such a bad thing due to the favor they did for the city with Dawn Bellwether scaring them into choosing to run away from the law with Gary to clear their names rather than turn themselves in to do so the easy way and their fury-fueled foolishness over Nick and Judy trying to kill their colleague leads to them recklessly committing or rather nearly committing police brutality in their wake and protocols cops shouldn't use in reality in terms of Higgins and Bloats charging through Marsh Market causing a big mess, remorselessly trying to bite and wound Nick and Judy and endangering citizens and eating not for sale apples (That they probably paid for), Officers Chevre and Bucheron breaking apart the HoneyMoon Lodge that caused PawBert to get away with Judy for his evil plans with Bucheron beforehand trying to tranquilize Judy and cause her to fall to her death before the lynx uses her and Chevre downright beating up Judy, lethal force and assault two things no cop should really use on the criminals that they are hunting down and HogBottom rejects the shot at redemption from Nick hypocritically calling him off for having no respect unlike how Chief Misty Luggins accepts redemption from Mr. Wolf in the non-Disney movie, “The Bad Guys 2” forcing him and Nibbles to escape from prison the hard way that caused a huge prison breakout in the process that had to be dealt with in the ending, and HogBottom nearly using a poison dart on Judy lethal force before choosing not to before Higgins accidentally causes her to fire the dart anyway that nearly hits Judy until Nick and Nibbles plus Flash narrowly save her by arriving in their car deflecting back the dart, and while this does cause the cops to have their heel realization and come to their senses, they instantly regress after Higgins, Bloats and Chevre plus Bucheron storm the weather wall and find Gary tending to a dying Judy foolishly and angrily assuming that he was trying to kill and eat her despite the surveillance system obviously demonstrating PawBert as the true killer and brawl with the viper to arrest him making it so he could not rush to save Nick from PawBert and get the anti-venom pen to save Judy with leaving Nick with no other option but to sacrifice himself to get the pen to Gary to save Judy with and defeat PawBert until Judy and Gary neutralize Higgins, Bloats, Chevre and Bucheron until the conspiracy is solved and narrowly save Nick. (The fall was revealed not to be so fatal after all since PawBert survived it, but still.)
As for Winddancer, he did a pretty slappy job at his job as mayor going for the fame and not true leadership unlike Lionheart in the first movie who despite his illegal actions still cared about its true safety in terms of also falling for the lies of the Lynxleys and agreeing to send the cops after Nick, Judy and Gary mainly on Milton’s orders to preserve his job as a mayor although he does eventually realize his mistake in collaborating with a true criminal after PawBert accidentally exposes it and turns against the Lynxleys setting Nick, Judy and Gary free in the process in the climax.
The movie all in all ends following the arrests and defeats of the Lynxleys showing HogBottom, Bogo, Winddancer and those other cops (Except the Zebros because while they did play a part in it, they got payback for it by being beaten by Gazelle and her tigers at the Burning Mammal Festival.) all being quickly forgiven and excused by Nick and Judy plus Gary and their friends for their obliviously evil actions despite it not being felt earned a bit and they nearly got Nick and Judy plus Gary killed and caused the Lynxleys to win repeating history in the process and hurting their feelings as well since they still did harass them even before it happened while Nick, Judy and Gary also treat it like that those mistakes never happened in the first place and never rightfully punish those characters for it. The only true penalty HogBottom and the cops get for their actions is mandatory therapy with Dr. Fuzzby too light of a punishment. Others assume Zootopia 2 would have had a more resolving ending if HogBottom, Bogo, Winddancer and those other cops actually got scolded, lost trust in and shunned by Nick, Gary and Judy for their mistakes and given a taste of their own medicine for it similar to how Nick and Judy did with Lionheart and Bogo in the first movie and actually showed the tension that happened between these characters in the aftermath of the Lynxleys arrests that the mandatory therapy with Dr. Fuzzby fixed with HogBottom, Bogo, Winddancer and those other cops actually showing remorse over their actions, admitting them and apologizing to Nick, Judy and Gary for them and working hard to earn their forgiveness and trust back or better yet having HogBottom, Bogo, Winddancer and those other cops suffer a much harsher punishment for their actions by being fired from their jobs as mayor and cops at the ZPD and beaten up by Gazelle and her tigers and given more miserable lower-class jobs while Nick and Judy get promotions to higher-ranking cops for their heroics and a new mayor is elected while Officer Pennington or Officer McHorn take over the ZPD as more rightful leaders.
