CRIME FIGHTER: San Juan Capistrano Mayor Collene...

CRIME FIGHTER: San Juan Capistrano Mayor Collene Campbell hasn’t abandoned her other role as a state crime victims leader. Campbell’s son was murdered in 1982 and her brother and sister-in-law were murdered in 1988. . . . Campbell recently sent letters to every city in the state asking that the cities “become a team” in lobbying the Legislature for tougher crime bills. In Orange County, La Palma and Irvine this week passed resolutions supporting her anti-crime effort.

REALITY DAY: Sacramento legislators who meet in committee next Tuesday are going to find themselves facing not just Mayor Campbell, but about 200 victims of crime who are scheduled to join her in a lobbying effort. Among those testifying: Cheryl Bess of San Clemente. In 1984, when she was 15, Bess was left blind, disfigured, and lost part of her hearing after being kidnaped and attacked with acid. . . . “It’s her first time to testify, but she volunteered,” Campbell says. “The lawmakers will get a lesson in reality about what crime does.”

COBB REDUX: Al Stump’s 1961 True magazine piece on the last days of Ty Cobb’s life is often touted as the greatest sports story ever written. Now Stump, who lives in Huntington Beach, has made it the first chapter of his new biography on Cobb. . . . That chapter is also the basis for a new movie on Cobb, due in the fall, starring Tommy Lee Jones. Stump is recovering from an illness and could not be interviewed. But baseball historian Roger Kahn calls the new book “the most powerful baseball biography I have read.”

PERFECT FORMULA: Maybe you already knew this, but Margie Deutsch is trying to make parents aware that breast milk is better for infants than formula. This week, she should get some special attention. . . . It’s “Breast-Feeding Awareness Week,” and her group, the Orange County Lactation Consultants Assn., is sponsoring a seminar about it Saturday at Irvine Medical Center. “We are working to make breast-feeding the cultural norm,” says Deutsch.