Vice President Harris His 2009 book Policing, published while he was San Francisco district attorney, alleged plagiarism from several sources.
The book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer,” was co-authored with Joan O'C Hamilton.
The so-called “plagiarism hunter”, Austrian professor Stefan Weber, found 27 times that Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, and his co-writers, crime form of theft.
He found that “24 volumes are plagiarisms from other authors, (and) 3 volumes are self-plagiarisms from a work written with a co-author.”
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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Harris speaks during a church service at Koinonia Christian Center on October 13, 2024, in Greenville, NC. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Chris Ruffo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a conservative activist First Report In Monday's complaint, Harris points to several examples from the book where entire sentences and phrases were apparently taken from other sources without the use of citations, although in some cases a note of footer cite the source.
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Christopher Ruffo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. (FoxNotícias)
“Overall, there is certainly a violation of standards here. Harris and his co-authors copied almost verbatim, without proper citations and without quotation marks, the textbook definition of plagiarism,” Ruffo wrote.
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Fox News Digital independently verified Harris' book literal and near-literal features Reprinted from a 2008 NBC News report, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release, a Wikipedia page, and a Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) report.
Kamala Harris (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
A 2007 John Jay press release reads:
High Point held its first in-person meeting with drug dealers in the city's West End neighborhood on May 18, 2004. The drug market was immediately and permanently shut down, with a sustained 35% reduction in violent crime. High Point repeated the strategy in three additional markets over the next three years. There is virtually no public drug trafficking left in the city, and serious crime has fallen by 20% citywide.
Since then, the High Point strategy has been implemented in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Raleigh, NC; in Providence, RI; and in Rockford, Illinois. The US Department of Justice is launching a national program to replicate the strategy in ten cities.
Harris' book includes the following:
High Point held its first in-person meeting with drug dealers in the city's West End neighborhood on May 18, 2004. The drug market was immediately and permanently closed, with a 35% drop in violent crime. High Point repeated the strategy in three additional markets over the next three years. The city has practically no public drug trafficking and serious crime fell by 20% across the city.
Since then, the High Point strategy has been implemented in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Raleigh, North Carolina; in Providence, Rhode Island; and Rockford, Illinois.
The US Department of Justice is launching a national program to replicate the strategy in ten more cities.
In another example, a Report As published by the BJA in 2000:
Although West Palm Beach is less than a mile from Palm Beach, one of the wealthiest cities in the country, 41% of the neighborhood's 5,360 residents live in poverty and the unemployment rate is 20%. The physical characteristics of the community are striking: dilapidated houses and businesses, vacant lots with piles of discarded mattresses and trash, as well as trash scattered across the streets, sidewalks, backyards and parks. No new businesses have opened in the area and few new homes have been built in recent years.
And Harris and his co-authors wrote:
Although West Palm Beach is less than a mile from Palm Beach, one of the wealthiest cities in the country, more than a third of the city's residents live in poverty and unemployment is high. The community is full of dilapidated homes and businesses, piles of discarded mattresses and trash, and vacant lots with trash strewn across streets, sidewalks, yards and parks. At the time the community considered adding a courthouse, no new businesses had opened in the area and few new homes had been built in recent years.
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Vice President Harris criticized former President Trump for not giving an interview on “60 Minutes” before the election. (Getty Images)
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