.THERE are actually crimes, Kamala Harris once wrote, and then there are “unlawful act problems”. As a district attorney from 1990 to 2004, Ms Harris charged suspects one by one. Yet as the area legal representative (DA) of San Francisco, from 2004 to 2010, and attorney-general of The golden state, coming from 2011 to 2017, she dealt with the greater image: crime prevention, public security as well as social ills.
In her presidential project she is accentuating each component of her CV. Since entering into nationwide politics in 2016 she has actually named herself both a “leading cop” and a “progressive prosecutor”. Which is it?