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Kamala Harris continued on to describe how she'd brought charges against a single homeless mother of 3 who was working 2 jobs because her children were truant...and this was a success story.pic.twitter.com/FT5uJmI6x9
Harris doesn’t say it clearly, but her career indicates a belief in Broken Windows-style retributive justice. Outside her involvement in a national foreclosure settlement, her office really targeted low level offenses—truancy, minor drug sales, graffiti, vandalism, auto burglary.
Harris' beliefs in retributive justice are deeply held. Here's a video of Harris from 2013 at the Chicago Ideas Week mocking criminal justice reformers as unrealistic and ideological.pic.twitter.com/DWk6bliLmw
Harris follows up with a story criticizing the "knee-jerk response" to criminal justice by Democrats.pic.twitter.com/2vJKTOKCgn
In this 2009 interview, Harris explains the truancy initiative. The anchors seem uncomfortably skeptical after she explains the process: infraction at first for parents with the option of assistance or prosecution. Then increasing punishments for repeat truancy and likely jail.pic.twitter.com/0YhbJTgEpF
Apparently, the speech from the beginning of this thread wasn't a one-off. It was a stump speech for her 2010 Attorney General campaign. This video is from a campaign event on November 2009.pic.twitter.com/fFdh89jdNi
It's practically a clone, right down to the story of the single, homeless mother of 3 working 2 jobs, charged for the truancy of her children, who took the help offered by Harris' office and as a result, wasn't prosecuted.pic.twitter.com/qGinu5jLRl
This was Harris' truancy policy as Attorney General in 2013, following the legislation she pushed which Governor Schwarzenegger signed in 2010: https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/tr/truancy_2013.pdf …
Thanks to @Vj248J for finding this!pic.twitter.com/3qzV6HEIrI
Kamala Harris was giving this same pitch about how prosecuting parents for truancy was smart/necessary as recently as 2014 at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit. Kirsten Gillibrand was there too. She praised it as an example of the focus women bring to leadership.pic.twitter.com/3tLHy0RxQ2
It's notable that gone from her story, however, is the bit about actually bringing charges against a homeless mother of 3 working 2 jobs.
Harris' campaign responded to these videos, telling HuffPost, "She believed a critical way to keep kids out of jail when they’re older is to keep them in school when they’re young,”https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-initiative_us_5c50b08ee4b0f43e410bcbc4 …
But intentions aside, Jezebel reports Harris' office brought charges against 20 parents in truancy cases in '09. In '12, due to the anti-truancy law Harris pushed, one woman was sentenced to 180 days in jail bc her two kids missed over 100 days of school.https://theslot.jezebel.com/this-is-what-truancy-laws-do-1832159930 …
I’m revisiting this thread to add that when she was running for Senate in 2016, Harris promised to bring her anti-truancy crusade with her. It was a selling point.pic.twitter.com/RPcKOwZQyM
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