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How do Harris and Trump's records on criminal justice compare?

Aug 16, 2024 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -35% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : In 2018, Trump signed a bipartisan bill into law similarly aimed at supporting recidivism reduction programs - a bill Harris voted for as a senator.
44% : She has also supported the Justice in Policing Act, which would limit "unnecessary" use of force and no-knock warrants, limit qualified immunity for police officers, and increase accountability for law enforcement misconduct.
38% : "Additionally, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney overturned the death sentence of Ernest Dewayne Jones in 2014, ruling that the nearly 20 years he spent waiting for execution on death row was a form of cruel and unusual punishment, and so the death penalty was unconstitutional.
33% : In 1989, prior to his time in office, Trump called for the return of the death penalty in a series of ads amid the case of five Black and brown boys then known as the "Central Park Five" who were convicted of assaulting and raping a woman in New York City.
31% : "Trump has consistently been pro-death penalty.
20% : Trump took out full-page ads in local newspapers within two weeks after the April 19, 1989 attack, calling to "Bring back the death penalty.
15% : As Trump - who has a criminal record of his own, having been convicted on 34 felony counts - prepares to face off in the general election against Harris, who is a former prosecutor, district attorney and attorney general, their past actions on criminal justice have come into the spotlight.

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