career. my career has been based on an understanding, one, that as a prosecutor, my duty was to seek and make sure that the most vulnerable and voiceless among us are protected, and that is why i have personally prosecuted violent crimes. that includes rape, child molestation, and homicide. and i have also worked my entire career to reform the criminal justice system, understanding to your point that it is deeply flawed and in need of repair, which is why as attorney general, for example, i led the department of justice, which is the largest state department of justice in any state in california, and implemented the first of its kind in the nation implicit bias and procedural justice training for police officers. it is why i created the first in the nation for any department of justice an open data initiative that we named open justice, for the first time making transparent and showing the public statistics around deaths in custody, arrest rates by race, and making that information ava
phone call to you in 2014. you were attorney general of the state of california and he asked you essentially if you would like to be attorney general of the united states, since he thought that his time in the office should be coming to an end. i can t imagine as a state attorney general or as any level of lawyer saying no, but you said no. yeah, it was a very difficult decision. and something i thought about a lot and talked about, but essentially i was in the i was at a point in my career as attorney general where i had embarked on creating a statewide initiative around re-entry of former offenders and it was becoming a model. i had started an open data initiative called open justice where i was for the first time of any department of justice publicly sharing arrest data, deaths in custody. we were in the middle of i created a bureau called the bureau of children s justice because there was no state agency focused on needs of
office should be coming to an end. i can t imagine as a state attorney general or as any level of lawyer saying no, but you said no. yeah, it was a very difficult decision. and something i thought about a lot and talked about, but essentially i was in the i was at a point in my career as attorney general where i had embarked on creating a statewide initiative around re-entry of former offenders and it was becoming a model. i had opened i had started an open data initiative called open justice where i was for the first time of any department of justice publicly sharing arrest data, deaths in custody. we were in the middle of i created a bureau called the bureau of children s justice because there was no state agency focused on needs of children and their rights. and i wanted to see that through, and, frankly, at the