Kamala Harris Can’t Keep Her Values Aligned – She Supported THIS Proposal On Drug Dealers

As San Francisco district attorney, Kamala Harris supported a program that would require some drug dealers to be charged with intent to sell only after their third narcotic arrest. The program, named “Operation Safe Streets,” was met with opposition from local law enforcement.

Then-San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong rejected the proposal in a letter dated October 24, 2005. 

“This proposal asks us not to arrest, but instead detain and release observed narcotics sales suspects pursuant to Penal Code Section 849(b) P.C. When the same suspect is arrested the third time for narcotics sales, your office would then charge all three counts,” wrote Heather Fong, who served as police chief until 2009. 

Harris has been touting her tough-on-crime prosecutor credentials throughout the 2020 campaign, boasting to potential voters that she focused on going after “perpetrators of all kinds — predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.”

However, this rhetoric goes against the language of her proposal.

“Additionally, narcotics dealers who sell drugs near a school would be released after only a brief detention,” Fong continued, noting, “Undoubtedly, this would send the wrong message to observant children who unfortunately witness drug dealing activity on a regular basis.”

After police pushed back, Harris’ office defended the initiative saying it would be used to build better cases against perpetrators. 

In April 2006, The Daily Journal reported that the concept had been scorned by police. And other defense attorneys told the publication’s Dennis Opatrny that the plan is “weird” and hard to implement.