From scpr.org:

The race for California attorney general pits Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley against San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris. Both are career prosecutors. The similarities stop there. Harris bills herself as an innovator. Cooley says he’s a by-the-book lawman.

Retired LAPD Detective Jimmy Trahin remembers training Steve Cooley in the early 1970s as a reserve police officer.

“First thing I noticed about Steve is that he was one of these gung-ho types,” Trahin told a reporter a couple of years ago. “He just couldn’t wait to get out there and pick up bad guys.”

Trahin recalls one confrontation with three robbery suspects on the rough streets south of downtown Los Angeles.

“It was an all knock-out brawl. And it ended up, other officers came in and Steve backed off,” Trahin said. “Then he came back in with his baton, and he was doing his number to try to keep these people down, and he ended up hitting half of the other cops that were there with his baton.”

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