Kamala Harris, the state's new attorney general, walks down the stairs at California's history museum Monday as she prepares to take the oath of office. Her sister Maya Harris follows behind her.
Posted on 01/04/2011 7:56:06 AM PST by SmithL
New Attorney General Kamala Harris took office Monday with a rapid-fire barrage of promises to target everything from violent gangs to online scams to truancy and prison recidivism rates.
Minutes after her swearing-in, Harris sent a message that she plans to be an activist as California's top cop, an innovator with a motto identical to the title of her book: "Smart On Crime."
"Ultimately, being smart on crime is about doing more preventing and less reacting, it's about being tough and being tough-minded, doing more of what works and less of what doesn't," she said.
Harris, who narrowly defeated Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, received the oath of office Monday from state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye while hundreds watched at California's history museum in downtown Sacramento.
The 46-year-old Harris is California's first woman attorney general and the first nonwhite person to hold that post. Her Jamaican-born father is an emeritus economics professor at Stanford University and her late mother was a breast cancer specialist from India.
Harris, former San Francisco district attorney, vowed not only to vigorously fight violence but crack down on environmental, white-collar, mortgage, online and other crimes.
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The latter group will be based on whatever she deems it to be, i.e. criminal or not.
Radical leftwing crazies activism..... yeah, that is what kalipornia needs.
“Ultimately, being smart on crime is about doing more preventing and less reacting, it’s about being tough and being tough-minded, doing more of what works and less of what doesn’t,”
Translation: We will ignore illegal aliens doing anything, we will ignore criminal homosexuals, we will ignore Democrats, we will ignore alien government entities spying on our remaining industries, and those industries are in trouble as well.
Won’t be long before CA is over it’s head in a drug, gang and mexican cartel crime wave that is on par with any third world country.
Stupid f’n californians.
FUBO & FAD
From Wikipedia:
Hate Crimes and Civil Rights
Harris has created a special Hate Crimes Unit as San Francisco District Attorney. She has focused on hate crimes against LGBT children and teens in schools. She convened a national conference to confront the “gay-transgender panic defense”, which has been used to justify violent hate crimes.[38] Harris supports same-sex marriage in California and opposed both Proposition 22 and Proposition 8.[39]
In 2004, The National Urban League honored Harris as a “Woman of Power” and she received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the National Black Prosecutors Association in 2005. In her campaign for California Attorney General, she has received the endorsements of numerous groups, including the abortion rights EMILY’s List, California Legislative Black Caucus, Asian American Action Fund, Black Women Organized for Political Action, Mexican American Bar Association, South Asians for Opportunity, and the National Women’s Political Caucus.[24]
Harris has been vocal in the immigration debate, supporting San Francisco’s immigration policy of not inquiring about immigration status in the process of a criminal invesitgation.[40] Harris argues that it is important that immigrants be able to talk with law enforcement without fear.[41]
She's got it all.....!
If Ramsey Clark was dead Kamala Harris would make me believe in reincarnation. Release all the current prisoners and replace them with business executives.
Let me get this straight. With huge problems of welfare fraud, gang violence, drugs in schools and public pensions exploding, this woman’s first priority includes high school students who make verbal slurs against perverts?
California is truly a shythole.
The woman is an enemy alien whose parents should never have been admitted to the United States.
Her job is to prosecute crime, to react to it. Who does she think she is? Tom Cruise in The Minority Report?
This kind of thinking is like changing all the light bulbs to "prevent" what is called "global warming". Something is done to stop somthing that cannot be quantified but idiots will say that they fixed a problem that never existed. Because of this they can conjure up just about any statistics they want to prove they stopped something before it happened but it was never going to happen in the first place.
I've read up on this broad, she is a lot like Lee Brown. very good at making it look liike she is being successful while she actually uses plea bargans and other techniques to bring up her case closure rates.
She sucks when it comes to using the death penatly which is something she is against. Even when it comes to MS-13 gangers.
If she wanted to do something she would start prosecuting illegals while starting litigation against Mexico for the damage it has done to Kalifornia.
This gal is another leftwingnut who thinks she will be president someday.
First nonwhite person to hold that post vowed to go after the evil rich white people,Hollywood critters hide money in freezer.
Wasn’t there a famous wrestler named Kamala?
L.A.'s murder rate is down to that not seen since the late 1960's. San Diego saw only 29 homicides in all of 2010, fewer than more than 40 yrs. I'm glad to see the "war on crime" making progress even in this economic climate.
Unfortunately, I have to ask if it'll be undone by early releases from overcrowded prisons as forced by the courts. I'm not thrilled by her embrace of "sanctuary city" policies. What I really want to know from any Attorney General is whether her office will defend the vote of the People. It seems clear she'll take then AG Brown's lead and not defend Prop 8, for example.
The policy of abandoning the voters in the courts is not acceptable and yet we've seen it during Davis' administration, Arnold's and surely Brown's too. Whether or not you question the constitutionality of the law or whether you disagree with how the People voted, you owe them the best defense in court proceedings.
I hope that was sarcasm...
Sorry! I forgot Voodoo.
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