.THERE are actually crimes, Kamala Harris once wrote, and afterwards there are "criminal activity troubles". As a district attorney coming from 1990 to 2004, Ms Harris charged suspects one at a time. Yet as the area attorney (DA) of San Francisco, from 2004 to 2010, and also attorney-general of California, from 2011 to 2017, she thought of the much bigger image: criminal offense avoidance, public safety as well as social ills. In her governmental project she is playing up both component of her curriculum vitae. Due to the fact that entering into nationwide politics in 2016 she has named herself both a "best police officer" and a "progressive prosecutor". Which is it?