.THERE are actually crimes, Kamala Harris the moment wrote, and then there are "criminal offense issues". As a district attorney coming from 1990 to 2004, Ms Harris billed suspects individually. Yet as the area legal representative (DA) of San Francisco, from 2004 to 2010, and attorney-general of The golden state, from 2011 to 2017, she thought of the greater picture: crime deterrence, public protection and also social sickness. In her presidential initiative she is actually accentuating each component of her curriculum vitae. Due to the fact that entering nationwide politics in 2016 she has actually named herself both a "best police" and a "progressive prosecutor". Which is it?