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2.5 million jobs a year: Karen Harris, Austin Kimson, and Andrew Schwedel, “Quick and Painful: Brace for Job Automation’s Next Wave,” Bain and Company, March 7, 2018, http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/quick-and-painful-brace-for-job-automations-next-wave-labor-2030-snap-chart.aspx.
In 2017, extreme weather events: Jeff Goodell, “Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration,” Rolling Stone, February 25, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/welcome-to-the-age-of-climate-migration-202221.
The economic toll will follow: Eileen Drage O’Reilly and Alison Snyder, “Where Climate Change Will Hit the U.S. Hardest,” Axios, June 29, 2017, https://www.axios.com/where-climate-change-will-hit-the-us-hardest-1513303282-6566eea4-6369-4588-88cc-c2886db20b70.html.
After Hurricane Harvey hit: Goodell, “Age of Climate Migration.”
CHAPTER 9: SMART ON SECURITY
490 million gallons: Andrea Elliott, “Sewage Spill During the Blackout Exposed a Lingering City Problem,” New York Times, August 28, 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/28/nyregion/sewage-spill-during-the-blackout-exposed-a-lingering-city-problem.html.
mortality rates in New York City: G. Brooke Anderson and Michelle L. Bell, “Lights Out: Impact of the August 2003 Power Outage on Mortality in New York, NY,” Epidemiology 23, no. 2 (March 2012): 189–93, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276729.
Chinese theft of American intellectual property: Sherisse Pham, “How Much Has the US Lost from China’s IP Theft?” CNN Business, March 23, 2018, https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/23/technology/china-us-trump-tariffs-ip-theft/index.html.
cybercrime’s toll in North America: James Lewis, Economic Impact of Cybercrime—No Slowing Down (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies and McAfee, February 2018), https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/reports/restricted/economic-impact-cybercrime.pdf.
six million times each day: Keith Alexander, “U.S. Cybersecurity Policy and the Role of USCYBERCOM,” transcript of remarks at Center for Strategic and International Studies Cybersecurity Policy Debate Series, Washington, DC, June 3, 2010, https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/speeches-testimonies/speeches/100603-alenander-transcript.shtml.
Cyber Crime Center: State of California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, “Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Creation of eCrime Unit Targeting Technology Crimes,” press release, December 13, 2011, https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-creation-ecrime-unit-targeting; and State of California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, “Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces California Cyber Crime Center Initiative in Fresno,” press release, October 10, 2016, https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-california-cyber-crime-center.
Right-wing pundits from Fox: Hans A. von Spakovsky, “Nominated for a Cabinet Position? Liberal Senators Just Want to Know Your Position on ‘Climate Change,’” Heritage Foundation, February 24, 2017, https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/nominated-cabinet-position-liberal-senators-just-want-know-your-position.
“dumb,” “ridiculous,” and “off-base”: See Andrew Seifter, “Yes, CIA Director Nominee Mike Pompeo Needs to Answer Questions About Climate Change,” Media Matters for America blog, January 13, 2017, https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/13/yes-cia-director-nominee-mike-pompeo-needs-answer-questions-about-climate-change/215013.
diseases are flourishing: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Illnesses from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites Increasing in the US,” press release, May 1, 2018, https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0501-vs-vector-borne.html.
the CDC has already identified: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites.”
Farmers had to abandon: Krista Mahr, “How Cape Town Was Saved from Running Out of Water,” Guardian, May 4, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/04/back-from-the-brink-how-cape-town-cracked-its-water-crisis.
reclaims only 7 to 8 percent: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and CDM Smith, 2017 Potable Reuse Compendium (Washington, DC, 2017), 30, https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-01/documents/potablereusecompendium_3.pdf.
Nearly 1 million homes: Ben Westcott and Steve George, “Asia Under Water: How 137 Million People’s Lives Are Being Put at Risk,” CNN, August 30, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/asia/climate-change-floods-asia/index.html.
The official death toll: Leyla Santiago, Catherine E. Shoichet, and Jason Kravarik, “Puerto Rico’s New Hurricane Maria Death Toll Is 46 Times Higher Than the Government’s Previous Count,” CNN, August 28, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/health/puerto-rico-gw-report-excess-deaths.
at least 4,600 American citizens: See Nishant Kishore et al., “Mortality in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria,” New England Journal of Medicine 379, no. 2 (July 12, 2018): 162–70, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972#article_citing_articles.
CHAPTER 10: WHAT I’VE LEARNED
helped lift hundreds of millions: Bill Gates, “Here’s My Plan to Improve Our World—and How You Can Help,” Wired, November 12, 2013, https://www.wired.com/2013/11/bill-gates-wired-essay.
“I think people don’t talk”: Mimi Kirk, “One Answer to School Attendance: Washing Machines,” CityLab, August 22, 2016, https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2016/08/school-attendance-washing-machines/496649.
“This is not tolerable!”: Niraj Chokshi and Astead W. Herndon, “Jeff Flake Is Confronted on Video by Sexual Assault Survivors,” New York Times, September 28, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/jeff-flake-protesters-kavanaugh.html.
“that they don’t matter”: Jesus Rodriguez, “Woman Who Confronted Flake ‘Relieved’ He Called for Delaying Kavanaugh Vote,” Politico, September 28, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/28/jeff-flake-protester-kavanaugh-852971.
Kavanaugh had misled the Senate: Paul Blumenthal and Jennifer Bendery, “All the Lies Brett Kavanaugh Told,” Huffington Post, October 1, 2018, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-lies_us_5bb26190e4b027da00d61fcd.
We learned that when she was in high school: “Kavanaugh Hearing: Transcript,” Washington Post (transcript courtesy of Bloomberg Government), https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript. Subsequent references to information presented during the Kavanaugh hearing may also be found here.
American Bar Association reopened: Associated Press, “American Bar Association Reopens Kavanaugh Evaluation,” PBS News Hour, October 5, 2018, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/american-bar-association-reopens-kavanaugh-evaluation.
“united, as professors of law”: Susan Svrluga, “‘Unfathomable’: More Than 2,400 Law Professors Sign Letter Opposing Kavanaugh’s Confirmation,” Grade Point (blog), Washington Post, October 4, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/10/04/unprecedented-unfathomable-more-than-law-professors-sign-letter-after-kavanaugh-hearing.
“I was calculating daily the risk/benefit”: “Kavanaugh Hearing: Transcript.”
a 200 percent increase in calls: Holly Yan, “The National Sexual Assault Hotline Got a 201% Increase in Calls During the Kavanaugh Hearing,” CNN, September 28, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24/health/national-sexual-assault-hotline-spike/index.html.
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Access to Counsel Act, 157–58
Ackerman, Arlene, 122
Affordable Care Act (ACA; Obamacare), 186–88, 206, 217, 225–26, 274, 281
Aguilar, Yuriana, 161–62
Alameda County District Attorney’s Of
fice, 2, 278
drug cases at, 48–49
Harris as deputy DA at, 26–33, 48
Harris as intern at, 1–4, 26
Alameda County Superior Courthouse, 1, 4
Albence, Matthew, 178
Albuterol, 190
Alexander, Keith, 242
Alpha Kappa Alpha, 23
Alzheimer’s disease, 191
American Academy of Pediatrics, 171
American Bar Association, 272
American Behavioral Scientist, 148
American Civil Liberties Union, 107
American Foundation for Equal Rights, 112
American Medical Association, 171
AmerisourceBergen, 204
Angelou, Maya, 18, 134
Araujo, Gwen, 138
Archila, Ana Maria, 268
Atlantic, 78, 195
Attorney General, U.S., 136–39
Attorney General of California, see California Attorney General
Aubrey, Uncle, 9, 11
automation crisis, 226–27
baby boomer generation, 221
Back on Track, 55–60, 67, 121, 136–38
Back on Track–Los Angeles (BOT-LA), 59
bail system, 47, 63–65
Baldwin, James, 17, 37
Bangladesh, 246
Bangladesh Bank, 241
Bank of America, 80, 96, 106
banks, 139
foreclosure crisis and, 76–82, 89–108
reforms and, 108
Barankin, Nathan, 148
Bayview–Hunters Point, 39–40, 196
Berkeley, CA, 2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 18
Biden, Beau, 99–100
Biden, Joe, 150
Bill of Rights, 64
Black Law Students Association (BLSA), 24
Black Lives Matter movement, 68, 69, 72–73, 156, 267
blackout of 2003, 240
Border Patrol, U.S., 176
Boxer, Barbara, 141–42, 231
Brennan, John, 245
Breyer, Stephen, 115
Bright, Cortney, 117
Brin, Sergey, 146
Brokaw, Brian, 86
Browder, Kalief, 64–65
Brown, Jerry, 46, 113
bug bounty program, 239
Bureau of Children’s Justice, 138
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, U.S., 23
Burke Harris, Nadine, 196
Burr, Richard, 237
buybacks, 225
California, 111, 160, 220, 245
immigrant population of, 161
Proposition 8 in, 110–17
Proposition 22 in, 111
Proposition 187 in, 144
wildfires in, 247
California Attorney General, 142
eCrime Unit, 242
Harris as, 45, 69, 72, 121, 137, 138, 160, 168, 205, 224, 242, 262–63
Harris’s campaign for, 59, 82–88, 113, 210, 277
Harris’s election and inaugural ceremony, 87–88
Mortgage Fraud Strike Force, 94
California Constitution, 112
California Department of Justice, 95
California Endowment, 121, 125
California Homeowner Bill of Rights, 103
California Supreme Court, 112
Cape Town, South Africa, 245
Caple, Ellie, 143
Cardinal Health, 204
Carver, George Washington, 12
Castile, Philando, 70, 71
Catholic Church, 275
Center for American Progress, 153
Center for Strategic and International Studies, 241
Center for Young Women’s Development, 54
Center for Youth Wellness, 196
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 205, 244–45
Central America, Northern Triangle in, 166–81
Chavez, Cesar, 266–67
Chicago Freedom Movement, 267
child care, 154, 217, 218, 225, 228
Chillicothe, Ohio, 202–3, 206
China, 205, 207
cyberattacks from, 241
immigrants from, 116, 146
Chisholm, Shirley, 18
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 243, 245
interrogation techniques at, 248–50
Citigroup, 106
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), 189–90
Citizens United, 116
CityLab, 263
civil rights, 7–8, 21, 58, 63, 68, 115, 120–21, 143, 266, 281
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 159
Civil Rights Act of 1991, 276
civil servants, 226
Clarke, LeRoy, 75
Clegg, Sean, 143
climate change, 156, 244
diseases and, 244–45
extreme weather events and, 227, 244, 246–47
national security and, 243–48
Paris Agreement and, 248
Clinton, Hillary, xiv, 234, 235, 271
CNN, 170
Coakley, Martha, 100
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), 144, 147–48
college, 218, 223–24, 225, 227–28
Color Purple, The (Walker), 18
Comey, James, 149
Congo, 172
Constitution, U.S., 71, 114, 116
Bill of Rights, 64
First Amendment, 157
Fourteenth Amendment, 112
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 92, 108
ContraBand, 59–60
Coons, Chris, 166, 273
Corinthian Colleges Inc., 224, 226, 262–63
corporations, 139, 222–25, 229, 274
buybacks by, 225
Cortez-Masto, Catherine, 100
Cosby, Bill, 275
cost of living, 217–29
Cranston, Alan, 24
Crestor, 188, 189
crime victims, 28, 30, 48, 49
and fear of coming forward, 152–53, 161
criminal justice system, 2–3, 24–26, 28, 45, 47–49, 52, 56, 62–63, 72, 142, 156
Back on Track and other reentry programs, 55–60, 67, 121, 136–38
bail in, 47, 63–65
hate crimes and, 138
implicit bias in, 69–70, 197–98
police, 68–72, 197
poverty and, 64–65
prison in, see prison
prosecutors in, 24–25, 28, 34, 36–37, 47–50, 56, 62, 72, 138
racial bias in, 62, 65, 66, 68–70
C-SPAN, 275
Cyber Crime Center, 242
cyber exploitation, 264–65
cybersecurity, 232, 234, 237–43, 248
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), 150–51, 160–64, 172
Davis, Ossie, 23
DaVita Inc., 200–201
Dearman, John, 58
death penalty, 83
Debevoise & Plimpton, 95
Declaration of Independence, 120
Dee, Ruby, 23
Defense, U.S. Department of, 242
Delancey Street Foundation, 82, 85
democracy, 174–75, 216–17
Democratic Party, 42, 276
Democratic Republic of Congo, 172
depression, 192
Depression, Great, 222
dialysis, 200–201
Dimon, Jamie, 101–2
diseases, 244–45
district attorneys, prosecutors, 24–25, 28, 34, 36–37, 47–50, 56, 62, 72, 138
DNI (Director of National Intelligence), 241
DREAM Act, 162–64, 166, 280
droughts, 227, 244, 246
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 206, 207
drugs, 48–49, 53–54, 58, 66–67, 68, 207
heroin, 202, 205
marijuana, 66
Mexico and, 132
opioid epidemic, 165, 202–7
prescription prices, 188–91
trafficking of, 132, 167, 205
dual tracking, 80
Duke, Elaine, 170
Eberhardt, Jennifer, 70
economy, 221–22, 228
climate change and, 244
cost of living and, 217–29
jobs and, see work, jobs
recession in, see Great Recession
education, 156, 221
college, 218, 223–24, 225, 227–28
cost of, 218
elementary school truancy, 121–25, 138, 263
for-profit colleges, 223–24
high school dropout rate, 122
reading proficiency, 122
elders, 221
elementary school truancy, 121–25, 138, 263
El Salvador, 166, 177
Emerge America, 42
Emhoff, Cole, 129–32, 134, 135, 149
Emhoff, Doug, xi, xii, xiv, 125–35, 137, 139, 142, 145, 148–50, 154, 156
Kamala’s marriage to, 134
Kamala’s meeting of, 125–28
Emhoff, Ella, 129–32, 134, 135, 149
Emhoff, Kerstin, 129, 135, 149
environmental issues:
climate change, see climate change
Mira Loma and, 257–60
water security, 244, 245–46
Environmental Protection Agency, 258
EpiPen, 190
Erlich, Justin, 138
faith, 16
Fannie Mae, 94
farmers, climate change and, 244, 245
farmworkers, Chavez and, 266–67
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 66, 149, 239–40
Kavanaugh and, 272–74
Federal Trade Commission, 23
Federation of State Medical Boards, 204
Feinstein, Dianne, 141
fentanyl, 205, 207
fertilizer, 261–62
financial crisis, see Great Recession