𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗞𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀 🇺🇸 When she was San Francisco district attorney, Kamala Harris literally wrote the book on criminal justice reform. Or one of them, at least. Amid a societal debate on whether it was a better policy to be tough on crime or soft on crime, Harris published “Smart on Crime,” less a manifesto than a collection of essays that hammered at the failure of a generation to curb criminal recidivism. The book was her calling card when she ran for state attorney general in 2010 against Los Angeles County’s district attorney, Republican Steve Cooley. Harris was, at least to Los Angeles, someone new — a woman of South Asian and (via Jamaica) African descent boasting a shiny political future built on a 20-year prosecutorial career in two different Bay Area counties. Cooley was an unassuming and somewhat frumpy white guy finishing up his third term as district attorney here, and an unlikely candidate for statewide office. The Times editorial board was becoming increasingly impatient with counterproductive tough-on-crime measures and progressively exasperated by the state’s Republican leadership, which seemed bent on driving the state into economic ruin in order to shrink government and slash aid to struggling Californians amid the Great Recession. • • • #july4th #july4thfun #starsandstripes #july4 #redwhiteblue #godblessamerica #america #madeinusa #holiday #proudtobeamerican #fourthofjuly #celebrate #celebration #usa #memorialday #july4thweekend #unitedstates #patriotism #patriotic #independenceday #4thofjuly #memorialdayweekend #biden #kamalaharris #trump (presso Settimo Torinese) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGYpyDMo_w/?igshid=1nmwaadglywq2