Kamala Harris Won’t Apologize for Being Tough on Crime: ‘I’ve Been Consistent My Whole Career’

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HARRIS: “I've been consistent my whole my career. My career has been based on an understanding, one, that as a prosecutor, my duty was to seek and make sure that the most vulnerable and voiceless among us are protected, and that is why I have personally prosecuted violent crimes. That includes rape, child molestation, and homicide. And I have also worked my entire career to reform the criminal justice system, understanding to your point that it is deeply flawed and in need of repair, which is why as attorney general, for example, I led the Department of Justice, which is the largest State Department of justice in any state in California, and implemented the first of its kind in the nation implicit bias and procedural justice training for police officers. It is why I created the first in the nation for any department of justice an open data initiative that we named open justice, for the first time making transparent and showing the public statistics around deaths in custody, arrest rates by race, and making that information available to the public. I instituted a policy around requiring the agents who worked in my division, which is the first of its kind for a state agency, to wear body cameras. I created an initiative back when I was D.A., and this is when, by the way -- this is the '90s and the early 2000s, where you could talk to D.A.S around the country, and you'd mention the word re-entry, and they didn't know what you were talking about. This is when there was a tough on crime mentality, and I created one of the first in the nation initiatives that was focused on re-entering former offenders by getting them jobs and training and counseling.”