CORE VALUES

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GUN CONTROL

• Harris supports an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, and red flag laws

FUNDING POLICE

• Harris now supports funding police, but it also requires funding rehabilitation

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HARRIS PLAN: “Fight Crime”

GUN CONTROL

Harris has not outlined any new plans to fight crime. However, she supports an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, and red flag laws.

POLICE FUNDING

To start with, Harris began her career in elected office as San Francisco’s district attorney, and the politics of law enforcement have been turbulent over the years. After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Harris expressed praise for the “defund the police” movement and questioned whether money was being effectively spent on public safety. Mitch Landrieu, national co-chair for the Harris campaign and former mayor of New Orleans, walked back a “defund the police” sentiment voiced by Harris in 2020, saying what she meant is she supports being “tough and smart on crime.”

“Her position has always been that you can both be tough and smart on crime, and it requires funding police, but it also requires funding rehabilitation and things that might criminal justice system safer,” Landrieu told CNN’s Pamela Brown. “You can do both.”

Now Harris is embracing her law enforcement background as she runs against Trump, who is the first former president to be convicted of a felony.

HARRIS ENDORSES THE 2024 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM – See Below

SOURCES

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SOURCE: Speech Aug 10 Las Vegas Rally

SOURCE: AP News

https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-joe-biden-donald-trump-election-90b9d5c6dc5553703af88dfa442a6bac

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2024 DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM  POSITION: Fight Crime

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WE NEED TO OVERHAUL THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FROM TOP TO BOTTOM

STOP THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE WHICH RELIES ON ARRESTS TO ADDRESS MISBEHAVIOR

WE MUST ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY AND MISCONDUCT IN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS

WE BELIEVE IN REDEMPTION

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HOW THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO IT.

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GENERAL

we need to overhaul the criminal justice system from top to bottom. Police brutality is a stain on the soul of our nation. It is unacceptable that millions of people in our country have good reason to fear they may lose their lives in a routine traffic stop, or while standing on a street corner, or while playing with a toy in a public park. It is unacceptable that Black parents must have “the talk” with their children, to try to protect them from the very police officers who are supposed to be sworn to protect and serve them.

End the Era of Mass Incarceration

Democrats believe we must break the school-to-prison pipeline that too often relies on arrests and law enforcement to address misbehavior that ought to be handled and deescalated within the school. We support re-issuing federal guidance from the Department of Education and the Department of Justice to prevent the disparate disciplinary treatment of children of color and children with disabilities in school and educational settings. Democrats believe every school should have sufficient funding to employ guidance counselors, social workers, nurses, or school psychologists to help guarantee age-appropriate and racially equitable student disciplinary practices, rather than turning to police to resolve these issues.

Accountability For Our Police Departments

Democrats believe we must ensure real accountability for individual and systemic misconduct in our police departments, prevent law enforcement from becoming unnecessarily entangled in the everyday lives of Americans, and re-imagine policing for the benefit and safety of the American people.

Democrats will establish strict national standards governing the use of force, including banning the use of chokeholds and carotid holds and permitting deadly force only when necessary and a last resort to prevent an imminent threat to life. Americans must feel safe when they are asleep in their own homes. We will work to establish “no-knock warrants” standards. The risk of mistakes and unintended consequences is too great.

We will require immediate application of these standards to all federal law enforcement agencies and condition federal grants on their adoption at the state and local level. We will require officer training in effective nonviolent tactics, appropriate use of force, implicit bias, and peer intervention, both at the academy and on the job. And we will ban racial and religious profiling in law enforcement.

Democrats will support measures to improve training and education for judges, corrections officers, prosecutors, public defenders, and police officers to ensure transgender and gender non-conforming people receive fair and equitable treatment in the criminal justice system.

Democrats will reinvigorate community policing approaches, so officers on the beat better serve the neighborhoods they work in, and make smart investments to incentivize departments to build effective partnerships with social workers and mental health and substance use counselors to help respond to public health challenges. Body cameras are not a panacea, but Democrats believe they can help improve accountability and transparency; we support their continued use and will take steps to improve compliance

Poverty is not a Crime,

it should not be treated as one. Democrats support eliminating the use of cash bail and believe no one should be imprisoned merely for failing to pay fines or fees, or have their driver’s licenses revoked for unpaid tickets or simple violations. Equal justice under the law should not be contingent on the ability to pay for quality legal representation, which is why we support increasing funding for public defenders and for the Legal Services Corporation.

Redemption

Democrats believe in redemption. We must deepen our commitment to helping those who have served their time re-enter society, earn a good living, and participate in our democracy as the full citizens they are. We support the automatic expungement of certain criminal records for those that have been fully acquitted, wrongfully convicted, or pardoned by the executive.

NOTE: To learn more and see the complete Democratic Platform, go to: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform

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SOURCE: Democratic Platform – On their official website

COMBATING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND PURSUING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE