.THERE are actually criminal activities, Kamala Harris once wrote, and afterwards there are "criminal activity issues". As a district attorney coming from 1990 to 2004, Microsoft Harris asked for suspects separately. But as the area attorney (DA) of San Francisco, coming from 2004 to 2010, as well as attorney-general of California, from 2011 to 2017, she thought of the much bigger photo: crime deterrence, social safety and social ills. In her governmental project she is highlighting both component of her curriculum vitae. Given that going into national politics in 2016 she has actually called herself both a "top police officer" and a "modern district attorney". Which is it?