Podcast Mentions
Smart on Crime A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer by Kamala Harris (October 01,2009)
Kamala Harris
Ms Harris is the D.A. of San Francisco and speaks to how to knock down crime. Especially the importance of education on all levels -age.
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The Ezra Klein Show
The host said he had revisited Harris's 2009 book Smart on Crime, noting it was unlike typical campaign memoirs and centered on policy proposals and the concept of safety as a civil right.
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I went back recently to read Harris's 2009 book, Smart on Crime.
— Episode: Are Democrats Right to Unite Around Kama...
Episode: Are Democrats Right to Unite Around Kamala Harris?
The host said he had revisited Harris's 2009 book Smart on Crime, noting it was unlike typical campaign memoirs and centered on policy proposals and the concept of safety as a civil right.
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I went back recently to read Harris's 2009 book, Smart on Crime.
It was a very different book than I'd expected. I'm used to the gauzy, memoirish quality of quickie campaign books.
This is a book not about her. It is about policies and programs that she thought as a DA were promising to prevent and reduce crime, promising to make prison a place of rehabilitation rather than a place that turns out more hardened criminals.
She goes on, quote, I believe that people have a right to feel safe on the streets and in their homes, and they have a right to keep and protect the things for which they've worked.
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The Megyn Kelly Show
Kamala Harris told a story about being raised by Marxists, in which she claimed she was in a stroller protesting and said the word freedom when her mother asked her what she wanted. She stole the story from MLK. She also told it on Jimmy Fallon, in the preface of her 2010 book, and Elle magazine.
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She stole it when she told it to Fallon. She stole it when she put it in her the preface to her to her 2010 book, Smart on Crime.
— Episode: Harris Agrees to Interview...with Walz,...
Episode: Harris Agrees to Interview...with Walz, and "Dange...
Kamala Harris told a story about being raised by Marxists, in which she claimed she was in a stroller protesting and said the word freedom when her mother asked her what she wanted. She stole the story from MLK. She also told it on Jimmy Fallon, in the preface of her 2010 book, and Elle magazine.
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She stole it when she told it to Fallon. She stole it when she put it in her the preface to her to her 2010 book, Smart on Crime.
You get that energy from your your parents or the thought of, hey, I have to fight for what's right and I'm going to get out there. And I mean, when when were you out there protesting?
Well, I was in a stroller. I was in a stroller. And so I was out there. And in fact, my mother used to have a very funny story about I was fussing. And she said, Kamala, what do you want?
And she said, Kamala, what do you want?
And I said, freedom.
Podcast
What A Day
Harris wrote the book in 2009 while she was DA of San Francisco. It outlined her vision for a "smart on crime" approach to criminal justice and included information about a San Francisco neighborhood program that Harris said was based on the principle of immediacy of consequences and services.
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Many people who are living on the streets there are suffering from addiction and mental illness but are receiving no treatment, turning a blind-eyed dooms a lot of individuals and turns the neighborho...
— Episode: Kamala Harris' Time As DA: Cop or Progre...
Episode: Kamala Harris' Time As DA: Cop or Progressive?
Harris wrote the book in 2009 while she was DA of San Francisco. It outlined her vision for a "smart on crime" approach to criminal justice and included information about a San Francisco neighborhood program that Harris said was based on the principle of immediacy of consequences and services.
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Many people who are living on the streets there are suffering from addiction and mental illness but are receiving no treatment, turning a blind-eyed dooms a lot of individuals and turns the neighborhood into a dangerous, dirty, crime-ridden zone.
Our Community Justice Center is a collaborative problem-solving center with a court on site designed to provide accountability for lower-level criminal behavior and at the same time to address the root issues associated with this behavior such as substance abuse, mental illness, and lack of shelter.
The center is based on the principle of immediacy, immediacy of consequences, and immediacy of services. Key is having everything under one roof, criminal justice agencies, service providers, members of the bench. It's simple but effective model.
Podcast
Search Engine
The episode referenced the title as a revealing look at Harris's tenure in California politics, highlighting how it sheds light on her earlier policy positions and prosecutorial approach. Ezra Klein noted he had recently read it and found it an interesting perspective on who she was during that period. The discussion framed the book as a useful source for understanding her background rather than a must‑read endorsement.
Episode: Is there a sane way to follow this election?
It was described as a revealing book about Kamala Harris's time in California politics, offering insights into her past stances and approaches.
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I just recently read Smart on Crime, her 2009 book, which is a very interesting way of thinking about who Harris was in California politics.
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