• @blackbelt352
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    Even then, as a former cop state procecutor and district attorney/AG, positions which are well known to have an extensive supportive connection with police and cops that everyone knows operate in lockstep and are functionally 2 sides of the same coin, her voting record has been surprisingly comparatively progressive/left wing sometimes on par with Bernie.

    • peopleproblems
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      She was also progressive as a DA too. She ran on the promise to never seek the death penalty, and she never did. She had a record number of cannabis prosecutions, but a substantially lower number of incarcerations for cannabia.

      Her mother is an Indian American doctor, and her father is an Afro-Jamacain American professor of economics. She’s lived in the East Coast, Chicago, California.

      She’s progressive. She plays by the rules but she’s progressive.

      We won’t be disappointed.

      • TheLowestStone
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        134 months ago

        Got a source for the lower number of incarcerations. I’ve been warming up to the idea of voting for Harris instead of against Trump and that would be another + for her.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m voting for her, and I think everyone else should too, but her record as DA isn’t all sunshine and roses.

        Yes, this is a 2019 article, but all that stuff was in the past then just as much as it is now:

        https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/kamala-cop-record/596758/

        Closing paragraphs of that article:

        I can forgive a politician a vote on a crime bill that looks ill-conceived two decades later, or a too-slow evolution toward marijuana legalization, or even a principled belief in the death penalty, something I adamantly oppose. I find it far harder to forgive fighting to keep a man in jail in the face of strong evidence of innocence, running a team of prosecutors that withholds potentially exculpatory evidence from defense attorneys, and utterly failing as the state’s top prosecutor to rein in glaringly corrupt district attorneys and law enforcement.

        At best, Harris displayed a pattern of striking ignorance about scandalous misconduct in hierarchies that she oversaw. And she is now asking the public to place her atop a bigger, more complicated, more powerful hierarchy, where abuses and unaccountable officials would do even more to subvert liberty and justice for all.

    • @bostonbananarama
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      184 months ago

      as a former cop

      When was she a cop? Thought she was a (assistant ) district attorney and then AG.

        • @StaticFalconar
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          284 months ago

          Reason why its considered part of the family is because for every cop that does bad but nothing ever happens to them, you can thank the DA for that choice.

        • @OutsizedWalrus
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          164 months ago

          To add to this, high level prosecutors need the backing of the police to do their job well. Cops are the ones on the streets making arrests, collecting evidence, and enforcing the laws. If they don’t like a district attorney, they can look the other way and make it difficult for them to do their job.

          In my opinion one of the big reasons so many cops aren’t prosecuted in this country is the prosecutors don’t want to lose their political will with the cops.

          • @Cryophilia
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            124 months ago

            In San Francisco, cops refused to do their jobs until the progressive DA who promised to punish bad cops was forced out.

        • @kautau
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          84 months ago

          I’m guessing the “back the blue” folks only consider someone a cop if they’re in the police union. Which is also funny because they tend to vastly support candidates that want to strip union rights

      • @blackbelt352
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        64 months ago

        I’m more using cop as a shorthand for “consistently on the side of the police and the State in the criminal justice system as a criminal prosecutor and district attorney” instead of “she was literally a uniformed officer”