I was the first black woman elected district attorney of San Francisco as the first black woman elected district attorney in the state of California in 2004, when I created one of the first in the nation initiatives as a prosecutor that was about getting jobs and counseling to, to those who had been in the criminal justice system. And at the time, the powers that be told me I was not supposed to be doing that. They said, why are you letting people out of jail when you're supposed to put them back in? (07:43–07:55)
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Asserts that Kamala Harris created one of the first national initiatives for jobs and counseling for those in the criminal justice system.
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