Kamala Harris is the original defunder of the police for shutting down California drug task force, ex-members say
Kamala Harris is the “original defunder of the police” for overseeing the shutdown of a key anti-drug unit keeping gangs and fentanyl out of California, according to former agents from the department.Despite often touting her great experience “personally prosecuting” transnational criminal organizations, including at at CNN town hall this week, during her tenure as Attorney General in California, the Democratic presidential nominee oversaw the shutdown of the state’s Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement (BNE) in 2012.“She could have fought the closure but she didn’t.I think her lack of action showed she wanted it,” Cary Cavalieri, a former special agent with the Department of Justice, told The Post, adding: “Kamala Harris was the original defunder of the police.”Cavalieri and other former agents also called out Harris claiming she never actually prosecuted transnational drug or gang cases.
They say she merely presided over arrests made by any number of state and federal agencies during her tenure.The actual prosecution of the cases were made by local district attorneys or federal agencies, they said.But Harris claimed to have been the prosecutor, to make it seem as if she cracked down on serious crime even after the BNE was dismantled, two years into her term as AG.“She was there for the photo op after it all went down,” Cavalieri said.“Every stump speech she talks about ‘prosecuting’ these big cases,” Sara Campbell, a 30-year retired special agent in charge at the BNE who worked under Harris when she was AG, told The Post.“It’s a lie.
She didn’t prosecute any of those big drug and gang cases.This is how she’s gotten where she is.“She simply says she did this or that and no one checks her.
It’s all smoke and mirrors.”California’s BNE was formed in 1927 and was the oldest drug enforcement agency in the country.However, once shuttered it left the most populous state without its premier anti-drug and anti-gang fighting forc...