In Gates, Williams saw controversy. “He really liked that. He thought that would get a lot of press and publicity for the game,” Mandel remembers. “I thought it’s one thing to seek controversy, but it’s another thing to really divide people. It seemed obvious… that there were going to be existing Police Quest players who would drop out rather than buy a game with Daryl Gates’ name on it.”
That crossed my mind as I was reading too, but if he is, he’s never said it publicly. I’d like to imagine he’s not, even though he was clearly pro-business conservative back in the day.