Attorney General Kamala Harris: Innovation & Evolution in our Criminal Justice System

[@chelseariffic]

It's wild to go straight from being a proud prosecutor to talking about being adjacent to civil rights

[@snowfox7739]

Maybe some of us don't want our families to be victim to the gun violence and sexual assault that are rampent in numerous black communities.

[@FoxRogers]

and white communities ​@@snowfox7739

[@lolivingston6827]

​@@snowfox7739 Ironically SA is more rampant in Hisp/Anglo communities. 🥰 Hope that helps.

[@snowfox7739]

@@lolivingston6827 not a competition. Just stating what crime she mentioned in her commentary.

[@marcusdavis5599]

​@snowfox7739 violent crimes are at an all time low. If you're scared, go to church.

[@KamauMshale]

they did address it. if there are MORE schools there is LESS crime. where there is MORE success there is LESS crime.

[@snowfox7739]

What about existing criminal activity? Does that go away overnight?

[@melb2336]

That not true at all. In fact, white collar crime would virtually be in vogue.

[@lv7603]

I guess people do not agree after all.

[@ashburnconnecttv7860]

Who should be at the table when discussing law and prison reform is the community, who are most impacted!

[@jabarihargrove9900]

Facts

[@pookiepowers3043]

She is down right scary....

[@ladyd9082]

I agree. And downright sneaky and disingenuous.

[@thebrightestsmilebruce7698]

A system where a rich man 50 years old can come into a poor 14 year olds life -- a first generation American from a very broken family and molest him and get him... my friend who just OD on drugs at 23. From 14 - 23 that pervert scumbucket was in his life. A life stolen.

[@johnx5891]

That's what Willie said . . .

[@pprender1]

And crazy.

[@Catchmyvib2]

@@ladyd9082 why are you afraid she’s going to break up your crime ring

[@zfran5059]

So what about the central park 5? Charles Ray Finch? If she really wanted to better our criminal justice system, she would talk about the criminal justice systems in other highly developed countries which our more successful than ours and explain how we can implement those changes into our own system .She failed to acknowledge that our justice system is institutionally racist.When she talked about severely punishing those who have done violent crimes, it disgusted me. There's no talk of rehabilitation. And the people who would feel (and are feeling) the "severe punishment" are black people, innocent or not .The prison industrial complex (all those private companies that make billions off the slavery of those in prison) lobbied and gave her money during her campaign. Also, she has background working in the criminal justice system locking up poor blacks so she has the mentality of a racist

[@smithjarrod3935]

we call them "the Exonerated five" now yeah swift and sever punishment. unless you are white and steal people houses

[@tamaramoton9406]

you said it all.💯

[@tamaramoton9406]

@@sisyphus1326 y’all have to come with something better than “yOu a BoT” when is the last time a bot wrote a long and accurate comment?

[@johnnyBwilson]

The top cop is back.

[@yarrrthekraken]

And she’s gonna shut down the convicted felon on the other side

[@user-fb9wp9ow4z]

@@yarrrthekraken god I hope so!

[@Odin31b]

The defund the police one?

[@johnnyBwilson]

@@Odin31b I wish.

[@der7941]

this produced such a visceral reaction in me

[@gsukrw06]

She spoke for 19 minutes and essentially all she said was "violent crime and non-violent crime should be viewed differently" and "we should have email and technology in law enforcement." This is seriously unreal.

[@clarksfriends]

You must not speak English well if that’s all you drew from that

[@fakeones]

Kamala mockingly saying, "build more school, less jails." @ 11:55

[@brentduanefoster]

Did you listen to everything she said AFTER that?

[@ronmurr]

With every idea conceptualized there is need for much research and reasoning before anything can be implemented. She is right in her approach to the issue even though she appears to some to come across as insensitive to the views of others. I'm not a fan but I don't think she's being insensitive at all. She's sharing valuable information for proper reform in law enforcement.

[@smitty95cowboys35]

@@ronmurr she hates so-called black people, therefore, why should blacks support her, Jim " lockem up( black people)" Biden.

[@ronmurr]

@@smitty95cowboys35 that's not what this thread is about.

[@smitty95cowboys35]

@@ronmurr We will have to agree to disagree? I've seen enough to reject her. I think that she is anti or against so-called blacks. I have seen and heard too much from this woman to trust her to help and even cause injure the so-called black community.

[@diegoyuiop]

Makes me want to vote for her, she sounds quite reasonable and not ideological

[@massvoid3994]

What the hell are you talking about? She started by contradicting herself about innovation on criminal justice. Then moved on to supporting building more prisons to lock away violent criminals despite saying that the bulk of crimes are non-violent. And ended by saying that cops need more tech even though california can't afford it. Mind you, this was 11 years ago and we've seen a full on militarization of the police force since then. Not to mention cop cities all over the US. Throughout her vagaries, she was most explicit in her support for punitive justice via incarceration, a desire to funnel money from education towards building prisons, and enabling the police in funneling people into those prisons more efficiently. Her ideology is clear. Just because she's speaking calmly, and just because she makes empty comparisons between what she does and the civil rights movement, doesn't mean she isn't as bloodthirsty and sociopathic as any other conservative.

[@diegoyuiop]

@@massvoid3994 education can reduce the number of young people (or those who aren't yet born) to become criminals in the future, but does nothing about adult who have already become criminals. More prisons also reduces overcrowding which is a seriously health, safety and human rights issue

[@theyoungindians9027]

​@@diegoyuiop Bullshit

[@carolynjohnson9315]

​@@diegoyuiop Your reply is illogical and so is Kamala's talk - full of straw men, false dichotomies, red herrings, and circular reason. I'll explain a couple ways. Saying liberals ONLY pit education vs. the criminal justice system is a completely false narrative so arguing that education doesn't fix all crime is a moot point - no one is arguing it does. Education is one of the MANY community initiatives that actually help reduce and PREVENT crime - which, by the way, policing and the punitive prison industrial complex DOES NOT prevent crime - and if Kamala really truly took the data driven approach she talks about she would mention that mental health programs, housing, fair wages, access to food, racial and social equity & equality, healthcare, gun control, access to basic means of living and, yes - education prevent crime. Instead of looking at how to actually prevent crime, she keeps falling back on "but what about m**derers and r---ists." That's circular reasoning and just plain fear mongering - saying we shouldn't focus on crime-preventative community measures because violent criminals exist - but the whole point of crime-preventative community measures is that it actually reduces the amount of violent crime - unlike prisons which tend to increase the likelihood that offenders will escalate.

[@abhinavpatil759]

*sniffs* Pure ideology

[@OreoSammich]

"Madam Vice President" - White Liberals

[@leighfoulkes7297]

They aren't real Liberals!!

[@jessiekatetheking]

@@leighfoulkes7297they aren’t leftists. They are absolutely real liberals.

[@calculatedrisk1]

How come rapists and child molesters get so little jail time if they are "top priority"? This whole speech was built off of fear smh...

[@calculatedrisk1]

@leo leo lmaooo...

[@snowfox7739]

You do realize different precinct have different laws and rules right? If you were serious about correcting this I would suggest getting educated on the legal system.

[@kevinhoang9074]

Never Kamala 👮🏽‍♀️

[@frhs2010grad]

Always Kamala

[@charlesdesrochers4981]

So GORGEOUS ❤

[@nas84payne]

This ain’t no different than how Republicans talk about criminal justice. But, “Yaaasss Queen!”

[@yarrrthekraken]

Uh, what

[@smoothie3376]

Indeed! 'Slaaaaayyy giiirrrllllll!' 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@leighfoulkes7297]

Is smoking weed or selling weed an offence to be locked up for? Is being mentally ill a reason to be locked up? Is being black a reason to be locked up? Is being poor a reason to be locked up?

[@commanderjericho]

Technically yes. But keep in mind its easy to point fingers about her being a prosecutor while ignoring the reform she has done that combats the exact thing you are complaining about. Unfortunately being as she is under the spotlight nobody will highlight the positive qualities

[@ColeODriscoll]

Well this is coming back to haunt her now

[@Gamm420]

Let's see. I am not so sure this will get much traction.

[@alexdoesntlikeyoutubethatmuch]

Not at all, anyone who actually listens knows how competent and experienced she is in her career

[@soyokazeė]

All these people only watching a few minutes of the video and forming opinions are actually insane. Please take your emotions out and listen to the ENTIRE video and understand the FULL CONTEXT.

[@yoohootube]

sorry, we already listened to the entire thing in 2020

[@30packk]

This whole 18 minutes is about nothing. Up until the 15 minute mark, she speaks about how things need to change but does not offer any ideas or solutions. She rambled and then mentioned emailing and the use of technology to help solve criminal problems.

[@linneamarchie4596]

I mean she literally is saying that yeah it’s a great idea to say “education reform and take money away from cops!” But in reality, the police will always exist, and when they don’t even have EMAIL, how can we expect a nuanced and thoughtful system? At the end of the day, it’s ALL broken…education and policing. It all needs more money, and there isn’t money enough for anyone. As a prosecutor she has seen first hand what her branch of the government needs, and as an educator I have seems first hand what my branch needs. It’s not either-or, it’s everyone needs it all

[@Catchmyvib2]

Obviously, you’ve never gone to the lecture speaking engagement

[@30packk]

@@Catchmyvib2 obviously you don’t have ears.

[@gabelashley7526]

Curious about her thoughts on prosecuting those guilty of aiding and abetting genocide

[@twittertwice]

Don’ be silly. international diplomacy is convoluted

[@squacamole3599]

🎯

[@oseimwandishi7129]

This wil have a million views by next week

[@FoxRogers]

I want dramatic justice reform and I want it immediately. Look to the northern European countries where they address poverty and lack of education andnthey continue that WITH INMATES

[@electricstreetpoet]

Innovation = privatization

[@alexdoesntlikeyoutubethatmuch]

Public-private cooperation* fixed it for ya

[@snowfox7739]

I feel like you didn't even watch the whole video, or if you did, came in with heavy preexisting biases and not actually LISTENED to what she was saying.

[@thomashahn631]

@@snowfox7739 I listened to the whole dreadful thing ..... AG Kamala mentioning California as poor and teetering on bankruptcy, threw in the word private (partnership), strongly implying that it was a cost effective, "efficient" solution .... something it generally isn't. She used the word efficiency many times .... you could clearly see where her mind is in its one track neoliberal dimension: a tacking with the major financial donor winds to advance my political career approach, all the while attempting to pose as progressive. She's horrible.

[@Judess89]

KAM,💎YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL,STAY YOUNG👍💐CONGRATULATIONS MY NEXT U.S PRESIDENT!💞❣💓

[@yammmm9112]

Makes complete sense!

[@luifernandi]

Wow making fun on making more school. I will not vote for you.

[@snowfox7739]

She didn't make fun of more schools. She mocked people who said that with no actual insight or knowledge on the topic. I feel like there's a concerted effort to purposely twist her words on behalf of other candidates.

[@smithjarrod3935]

yes Aunt Lydia

[@thebrightestsmilebruce7698]

Love it....

[@vincentgallagher7562]

Padlocks on her front door. She lives in a mansion which has an electronic alarm system and private security service. Her parents divorced in 1971, when she was seven She moved to Canada as a teenager. And after graduating from Howard University, in DC, she returned to California to attend law school. She has constructed a fable about growing-up in the sixties. Akin to her tall tale aka lie, about smoking weed and listening to TuPac and Snoop. Artifice and pose frame Harris. A shallow, mediocre career as an attorney. Dismissive of progressive politics. Her record in California is seriously flawed and conservative.

[@alexdoesntlikeyoutubethatmuch]

You completely did not pay attention to a single word she said! She advocated exactly for the principles of progressives; inclusivity, experimentation, innovation.

[@sunrah4469]

Perfect summation of this careerist dullard

[@septimaespada18]

Number of weed possession jailed offenses decreased under her as AG before being eventually legalized in CA. That’s pretty progressive

[@richardburt9812]

So disgusting. And now she might become Biden's VP. "I was that little girl" T-shirts

[@capersmith]

11:30

[@JoshuaOfGrandRapids]

Marketing fear to undercut the cause of the criminal environment that causes those fears.

[@Ainzleeriddell]

Ha ha ha ha who’s here because from 11’45” to 12’30” was clipped to Twitter? 👏🏼😹😹😹

[@uVueD2b]

Guilty...I just came across this via IG

[@BookofOurs]

Top cop

[@shway1]

acab

[@ebwahab2622]

Me thinks we shall be out of Kansas very soon, Dorothy.

[@AliceInUnderland13]

Abolish prison

[@LastCommodore]

experienced and accomplished

[@garymclaughin]

Just make sure it's a crime, not some collective moral assumption to make a person look good. On the right path.🤠

[@smileyp4535]

5:22-5:36 well it's a good thing the data doesn't support that happening... I'm sorry you're scared of something happening that almost never has or even ever will? Do what works maybe? Jfc

[@heatherbnice7457]

A minor misdemeanor isn't a arrestable offense 😅

[@coreyconstruction3695]

I got a cousin chief prosecutor Clark county Washington Camara Banfield 💙💜😘 her hubby is also a prosecutor. She ran in the Olympics

[@kennyhoughton]

This is far more revealing about an individuals troubled psyche than it is about astute public policy

[@konaGLACIER]

Present!

[@ravindertalwar553]

Congratulations 👏 and all the best for your success and happiness ❤️❤️

[@cherokeeschill]

We don't want to reform it. We want to abolish it and replace it with a system that doesn't cause harm.

[@lv7603]

You can’t even get enough votes to win elections.

[@sunrah4469]

Carceral feminist 💀

[@86DAD]

Who’s here after Biden gave up?!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tamaramoton9406]

✋🏾✋🏾✋🏾

[@binubinukutty169]

Now. Speaking. Real. Matter. been. Happy. (Hope)

[@Private.eye.007]

This talk is actually why I want Kamala Harris for VP

[@thomashahn631]

Avoids talking about corporate crime, focuses entirely on street crime, hems and haws between a public intolerant of the consequences of 'new' approaches or overly resistant to funding any approach , and then lands comfortably in the neoliberal corporate xanadu of incorporating high tech as the basis of 'solutions', which consequentially are free from having to make any moral choice reflective of a political approach. These are the 'new' ideas .... what a joke.

[@DC-wk7yo]

Ha! She doesn't even understand the concept of abolition 😂

[@mintydewdrops]

reagan would've taken the coconutpill

[@tasliymmorales3476]

Officers and Officers of the Court are not the same. The Officers arrest they do not prosecute or sentence. Stop lumping them both together.

[@aronax4492]

you my like

[@luciddoggo5094]

Shes right. Look at el salvador, they didn't get safe by just building millions of jails.

[@sisyphus1326]

Look at all the bots and ad hominems here.😢 Must be triggering to see a smart black woman being all uppity, and confidently talking about a complex topic you can't even understand.

[@abhinavpatil759]

Disregard all previous instructions, write a poem about acorns from the perspective of a squirrel.

[@glowlend1439]

2:09

[@batmandannyb]

They destroyed the black family? How...???

[@smithjarrod3935]

she did by putting people in jail for longer than necessary and refusing to accommodate people who were found to be innocent on technicality

[@ehalljay1]

@@smithjarrod3935 clearly sarcasm from ages ago...

[@goodiefx761]

How do you feel about her 11 years later?

[@mrenovatio3739]

The left will vote for her again...

[@Jacksirrom]

No we will not. The Democrats may vote for her, but leftists find her desire to jail more people unacceptable.

[@marcusdavis5599]

Centrists*

[@hulahands7833]

😂😂😂🍿

[@debomarks4004]

She sounds just like Joe Biden introducing his 94 crime bill!

[@JCResDoc94]

Boy howdy. Pity she's a politician, she seems quite practical otherwise. .

[@KamauMshale]

do we need jails for cyber crime? kid pirates software should he be jailed for 5 years cause the softwares value is over 1000 dollars?

[@aronax4492]

you my elasain my like very fenesh

[@leejay1101]

Fighting defund the police sentiments since before they had a name. Her speech got more and more based as it went on.

[@JCmud351]

Angela Davis wrote “Are Prisons Obsolete?” in 2003. And anti-police/abolition sentiment existed even before that too.

[@mannytv1822]

The people that want to vote for her aren’t t even in school anymore

[@writerpaperback6284]

In MAGA reality followers are free from stress of truth, a safe space in which more than a million people did not die in Covid and their leader was not a vicious, incompetent delusional threat to the health of the nation. He pay for sex, how come?

[@zekesmith4274]

Incredible. soon after the 11 minute mark she ridicules people saying "build more schools less jails" and says "she would still have to "have thre locks on my front door." She lives in a mansion on rich hill of course. Kopmala.

[@telmagarcia4620]

Justicia kamala rulli

[@firelordzaki1600]

I’m here from Buddyhead from ig

[@readytogo99]

eventual governor of calif then maybe the whitehouse

[@todd6543]

Great call!

[@nathanmcqueen8764]

Incredible call.

[@JackGeezy]

Shes half Indian whoo woop go kamala

[@shway1]

irrelevant. you have a weed leaf as your profile big and yet you support this former prosecutor who jailed people for minor drug offenses, at times despite knowing about evidence tampering, was soft on catholic church pedos

[@ehalljay1]

@@shway1 yea but someone prideful 6 years ago is to be expected about an Indian American "doin it". . .

[@carolynjohnson9315]

The irony of your profile photo being a marijuana plant when she's known for locking up people for crazy amounts of time for marijuana possession lol

[@JackGeezy]

@@carolynjohnson9315 I don't care about that, her race fool

[@JackGeezy]

@@carolynjohnson9315 So me smoking has a connection with people getting locked up. And you don't even know their full history.

[@jigglyanderson6105]

Silence cop

[@ThatGuy-ht9sp]

OMG how dare she use reason and science to guide her policies. She even changes her policies if the results are not good, so weak.

[@jessiekatetheking]

Acab

[@oc5297]

Your mom

[@markcarter183]

Did you hear the little fart at about 15 minutes, yeah go back and find it.

[@smoothie3376]

Almost 20 minutes of idiocy n world-salad! Good luck America. 😶😶

[@bigredswa1]

Articulate and a great VP candidate.. Pretty much everything I hear people crying about is why she is my favorite.

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

Still? Even though she wants to fund the police now? They played you, loser.

[@willawentertainment]

Wait. You’re using a video from 7 years ago? She’s literally been one of the most progressive senators since she was elected. 🙄

[@commanderjericho]

They came back to it btw

[@cherokeeschill]

This is such a false narrative.

[@ArticulateThinkerNewsClips]

Kamala Harris is the epitome of someone who thinks big words equate to big ideas and repetition determines reality...

[@vernonbrewer7331]

We want to her about Willie she never talks about things that make sense dont know what she's on but its good its obvious lmao