Steve Cooley Quotes

The public has expressed legitimate concerns about [the law's] use against those who commit new, nonviolent, not serious offenses. We think that if we don't fix the law, we may lose it to those who would weaken it so much it would lose its teeth.

- Steve Cooley

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