byJoseph SimonsonandEmily Larsen September 11, 2019
Sen. Kamala Harris’ criminal justice reform plan represents a stark reversal from her prosecutor days on body cameras, police shooting investigations, cash bonds, and other contentious law enforcement issues, a Washington Examiner inspection found.
Much of the California Democrat's
plan, released Monday on her presidential campaign website, focuses on reducing "mass incarceration" and calls to “drastically [limit] the number of people we expose to our criminal justice system.”
But Harris took a different approach as San Francisco district attorney from 2004-11. In a 2008
letter to the editor in The Recorder, a legal newspaper, Harris boasted that her office “nearly tripled the number of misdemeanor cases taken to trial” since 2003 and argued that misdemeanor crimes “erode our quality of life and are often a gateway to more serious offenses that jeopardize public safety.”
Harris’ criminal justice reform plan calls to “increase funding for body cameras and set standards for its use” and says that the standards “must take into account privacy concerns and community input.” ........To Read More....
My Take - So, what exactly does Kamala Harris believe? She is absolutely sure she should be President of the United States and will gladly embrace the latest philosophical flavor of the day it that will give her the votes she needs. Even if that means taking positions that are 180 degrees out from her former positions. I think she's finding out getting to the top nationally isn't as easy as it was sleeping her way to the top in San Francisco.
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