It’s no longer up to Steve, our almost brand-new district attorney, who last week formally abandoned any further interest in the Rampart-area police-corruption cases. These are the very cases, you‘ll recall, whose neglect helped Steve Cooley beat incumbent Gil Garcetti in last year’s election. Too bad about that. Many, many voters expected much more.Cooley himself wasn‘t too comfortable with this proclamation. He probably knew full well that the public memory wasn’t quite so short as to take the news in stride. So the big admission got stuffed in as a sort of ad lib last week in a news conference intended to vaunt alleged new policies to avoid police misconduct. But the news-event topic was barely mentioned in the resulting coverage.Later, a D.A. spokeswoman said details about certain pending Rampart cases wouldn‘t be disclosed, since some of them had not yet been rejected. That comes pretty close to saying that the decision to ”close“ the ”book“ came before that book, as Cooley glibly put it, ”is read.“
Source: Cooley Cops Out | L.A. Weekly