Harris has a very, very long list of accomplishments. Here are just a few of them.
Harris created the San Francisco Reentry Division. Over six years, the 200 people graduated from the program had a recidivism rate of less than 10%, compared to the 53% of California's drug offenders who returned to prison within two years of release.
As part of an initiative to reduce the city's homicide rate, Harris led effort to combat truancy for at-risk elementary school youth in San Francisco. In 2008, declaring chronic truancy a matter of public safety and pointing out that the majority of prison inmates and homicide victims are dropouts or habitual truants, she issued citations against parents whose children missed at least 50 days of school, the first time San Francisco prosecuted adults for student truancy. Harris' office prosecuted parents. By April 2009, 1,330 elementary school students were habitual or chronic truants, down 23% from 1,730 in 2008, and from 2,517 in 2007 and 2,856 in 2006.
Harris secured huge dollar pollution settlements. Automaker Volkswagen AG agreed to pay up to $15 billion to settle claims related to cheating emissions standards. Harris brought settlements with Chevron, BP, ARCO, Phillips 66, and ConocoPhillips who failed to properly monitor the hazardous materials leaking from their underground gasoline storage tanks.
Harris forced the California Department of Justice to improved its DNA testing capabilities, clearing California's DNA backlog for the first time. Harris rebuild trust between law enforcement and the public. The California Department of Justice became the nation's first statewide agency to require all police officers to wear body cameras.
Harris charged purveyors of revenge porn sites based in California with felonies, and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. Harris announced the arrest of Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer on felony charges including pimping a minor, alleging that 99% of Backpage's revenue was directly attributable to prostitution-related ads, many of which involved victims of sex trafficking, including children.