A Los Angeles police union slammed former Vice President Kamala Harris and California Democrats for pulling officers off some of the city’s most crime-ridden areas to serve as her security detail.
At least a dozen Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Metropolitan Division officers were reassigned to Harris’s security detail after President Donald Trump terminated her Secret Service protection on Aug. 29. The officers had originally been slated for crime-suppression work in the San Fernando Valley before their assignment changed, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“Pulling police officers from protecting everyday Angelenos to protect a failed presidential candidate who also happens to be a multi-millionaire, with multiple homes and who can easily afford to pay for her own security, is nuts,” the board of directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League — which represents over 8,700 LAPD officers — told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The board added that Democrat Mayor Karen Bass “should tell Governor Newsom that if he wants to curry favor with Ms. Harris and her donor base, then he should open up his own wallet because LA taxpayers should not be footing the bill for this ridiculousness.”
Former vice presidents traditionally receive Secret Service protection for six months after leaving office, but former President Joe Biden signed an executive order shortly before leaving office that extended Harris’s protection to July of 2026. Trump reversed that order, ending her security detail as of Monday.
Neither Bass nor Newsom’s office responded to the DCNF’s request for comment, and Harris could not be reached for comment.
The city is funding security for her while the former vice president is preparing to hire her own private security team, the Los Angeles Times reported.
This is not the first time Harris has leaned on LAPD protection. As a U.S. senator, she had LAPD plainclothes officers guarding her from 2017 to 2018 until then-Police Chief Michel Moore shut it down after determining it was no longer needed, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Meanwhile, Harris announced in late July that she will not be running for California governor in 2026. Instead, she is preparing to launch a book tour next month to promote her upcoming memoir “107 Days” chronicling her failed 2024 presidential campaign.
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