Vice President Harris is accused of plagiarizing a 2009 book on police operations that she published while she was San Francisco district attorney from multiple sources.
The book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer is co-authored with Joan O'C Hamilton.
The so-called “plagiarism hunter”, Austrian professor Stefan Weber, Found Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, and her co-authors have been accused of committing some kind of crime 27 times. forms of plagiarism.
He said, “I discovered that 24 fragments were plagiarized from other authors. [and] Three fragments are self-plagiarized from works written with co-authors. ”
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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Harris speaks during a service at Koinonia Christian Center on October 13, 2024 in Greenville, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Chris Rufo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and conservative activist first reported Monday's complaint cited multiple examples in Harris' book where entire sentences or phrases are clearly cited from other sources without using citations, but in some cases the sources are cited in footnotes. are.
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Christopher Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. (Fox News)
“Taken together, there is certainly a violation of standards here. Harris and his co-authors reproduced long passages almost verbatim, without proper citations or quotation marks. This is the definition of textbook plagiarism. ” Rufo wrote.
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Fox News Digital independently verified Harris' book. Verbatim and near verbatim features Reproduced from a 2008 NBC News report, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release, a Wikipedia page, a Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) report, and more.
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2007 press release From John Jay:
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, and violent crime fell by 35%. Highpoint reiterated this strategy in three additional markets over the next three years. There is almost no official drug dealing left in the city, and serious crime has decreased by 20% citywide.
The High Point Strategy was subsequently implemented in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Raleigh, North Carolina. In Providence, Rhode Island. and in Rockford, Illinois. The U.S. Department of Justice is launching a national program to replicate this strategy in 10 cities.
Harris' book includes:
High Point held its first in-person meeting with drug dealers from the city's West End neighborhood on May 18, 2004. The drug market was immediately and permanently shut down, and violent crime fell by 35%. Highpoint reiterated this strategy in three additional markets over the next three years. There is virtually no public drug dealing left in the city, and serious crime has decreased by 20 percent citywide.
The High Point Strategy was subsequently implemented in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Raleigh, North Carolina. In Providence, Rhode Island. and in Rockford, Illinois.
The U.S. Department of Justice is launching a national program to replicate this strategy in 10 additional cities.
In another example, report A book published by BJA in 2000 states:
West Palm Beach is less than a mile from Palm Beach, one of the wealthiest cities in the country, but 41 percent of the neighborhood's 5,360 residents live in poverty and are unemployed. The rate has reached 20 percent. The physical characteristics of the community are notable. These include dilapidated houses and shops, vacant lots with discarded mattresses and piles of trash, and trash strewn across roads, sidewalks, gardens, and parks. No new businesses have opened in the area, and little new housing has been built in recent years.
And Harris and her coauthors write:
West Palm Beach is less than a mile from Palm Beach, one of the wealthiest cities in the country, but more than a third of the town's residents live in poverty and are unemployed. The rate is also high. The area is full of dilapidated homes and stores, vacant lots with discarded mattresses and piles of garbage, and trash strewn across roads, sidewalks, gardens, and parks. At the time the community considered adding a courthouse, no new businesses were opening in the area and little new housing had been built in recent years.
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