Kamala Harris Made Increasing Bail Costs a Priority as San Francisco DA
Posted By Brent Scher On March 26, 2019 @ 5:00 am
The first legislation Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) introduced when she took office aimed to upend the "unjust and unfair" cash bail system, but her top priority back in 2004 as San Francisco district attorney was to make bail in the city more expensive.
The current argument against cash bail put forth by Harris, who introduced the legislation with Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) and talks about it often on the campaign trail, is that it "penalizes the poor" by "design." She points to cash bail in her latest book as a major contributor to systemic racism in the criminal justice system and advocates for it to be replaced.
This was not her view when she took the reins of the San Francisco district attorney's office, according to a May 2004 interview she did with the Commonwealth Club of California. Harris told the audience one of her top "priorities" in her first 100 days as district attorney was making bail more expensive.
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