• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    From the article:

    Throughout her tenure as district attorney, Harris focused on securing convictions. Felony conviction rates rose from 52% to 71%, and gun crime convictions rose to 92% in the first five years she was in office, according to her book.

    She also increased convictions for drug sellers, from 56% in 2003 to 74% in 2008, Harris noted. At the same time, Harris also implemented the Back on Track program, which provided nonviolent offenders — many of whom were low-level drug dealers — with the chance to receive a high school diploma, job training and access to available work, instead of prison sentences.

    So putting aside from the click-baity title and a small number of contentious cases, she cracked down on gun crime and implemented a program for imprisoned drug dealers so they had the possibility of turning their lives around when they got out. That’s not too bad.

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    4 months ago

    Pushing the Democrats to the left again, are we, OP? Sometimes it’s just about introducing the right types of topics into the discussion.

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        4 months ago

        The same way you hold Trump’s feet to the fire, or the rest of the ultra conservative right? If that were the case you wouldn’t have time for fluff pieces like this.

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          4 months ago

          Trump is a massive piece of shit. Every Republican/conservative is also a piece of shit. All of them.

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          Trump and his entire party is a steaming pile of horse shit, but they don’t mind everyone seeing that they are a steaming pile of horseshit. Democrats, on the other hand, are also a steaming pile of horseshit but they include populist rhetoric to cover it up. to make it sound like they are fighting for the working class. And this is while forcing everyone’s attention onto something/someone else so we don’t discuss their past.