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    In a shocking new report released on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nominee for president, is facing accusations of plagiarizing huge parts of her book, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safe. Christopher F. Rufo, a conservative activist, reported the news noting that this controversy has sparked up just as Harris gets back on the campaign trail this week.

    Rufo, who has a well established reputation for doing stellar investigative work, provided several examples of the alleged plagiarism in the book, which was co-written by ghostwriter Joan O’C Hamilton. The work was originally published in 2009 and played a rather significant role in helping to establish her reputation as someone who genuinely cared about criminal justice reform during her time campaigning for the position of California Attorney General. But new analysis of the book has uncovered that there are key sections of the tome that seem to be copied from various sources such as other media outlets, reports released by the government, and, most ridiculous of all, Wikipedia.

    Here’s more via Trending Politics News:

    In one of the first allegations detailed by Rufo, Harris allegedly lifted entire passages discussing high school graduation rates from an uncited report by NBC News. The text in question is nearly identical to a section found in an AP/NBC News report, including specific statistics regarding graduation rates in major U.S. cities. Such material was included in her book without proper attribution, according to Rufo’s findings.

    One of the most significant instances of plagiarism identified involves text from a press release by John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In the book, Harris describes a drug prevention strategy implemented in High Point, North Carolina, which had been outlined in the press release. Rufo notes that Harris and her co-author failed to provide any attribution, instead passing off the detailed language as their own. This included entire paragraphs that describe the results of the strategy, the locations where it had been replicated, and its alleged success in reducing crime rates.

    Rufo pointed out this case in his report going on to say, “Kamala Harris has become famous, in part, for her unique rhetorical style. She switches freely between various accents and peppers her speeches with catchphrases: pondering falling ‘out of a coconut tree,’ discussing ‘the significance of the passage of time,’ and moving the nation toward ‘what can be, unburdened by what has been.’”

    What is really leaving folks gobsmacked is the allegation that Harris made use of Wikipedia as a source for the book. Wikipedia is notorious for not being trustworthy due to the fact that anyone can change the information in the entries that exist on the site. Harris, when talking about a court program in New York, seemingly copy-and-pasted whole passages from the Wikipedia entry. She didn’t properly cite the original source, nor did she take any time to verify the information she was stealing. Rufo then revealed that Harris did not cite a figure concerning illegal vending in the city correctly.

    In another section of the book, Harris allegedly used language from a Bureau of Justice Assistance report, which was linked in the same Wikipedia entry. The report provided detailed descriptions of crime reduction initiatives in various cities, including West Palm Beach, Florida, which Harris apparently reproduced verbatim in her book without credit.

    In his report, Rufo lays out other instances where Harris allegedly lifted language from government documents, nonprofit reports, and media outlets without giving credit. For example, when describing a nonprofit organization, Harris allegedly copied promotional language from an Urban Institute report, once again failing to cite her source.

    Plagiarism says a lot about the personal character of Harris. Clearly, she’s too lazy to be bothered doing the necessary work to ensure the information she provides to the public is accurate. If she won’t take the time to do that for a book, what makes anyone think she’d do so for policies? We probably don’t need further reasons for Harris not to be elected, but this is a big one.

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