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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You better believe I do:

'Conviction rate aside, only 45 people were sentenced to state prison for marijuana convictions during Harris’ seven years in office, compared with 135 people during Hallinan’s eight years, according to data from the state corrections department. That only includes individuals whose most serious conviction was for marijuana.'

https://web.archive.org/web/20210218054019/https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

That was a very enlightening read. Thank you for sharing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.