* Police chief of Mesa, Arizona from 2006-09
* Police chief of San Francisco from 2009-11
* District Attorney of San Francisco from 2011-19
* Was elected District Attorney of Los Angeles County in 2020
* Views the American criminal-justice system as inherently and systemically racist
* Favors the defunding of police departments, alternatives to incarceration, the elimination of cash bail, and the termination of capital punishment
* Seeks to limit the prosecution of “low-level, ‘quality-of-life’ offenses”