Despite Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom's attempts to "protect" former Vice President and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris by supplying a Los Angeles Police Department security detail, the uproar from L.A. citizens and the Police Protective League was heard above their political posturing and gaslighting.
The Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday discontinued its protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris after heavy criticism within its own ranks that officers were being diverted from crime suppression, sources told The Times.
LAPD Metropolitan Division officers had been assisting the California Highway Patrol in protecting Harris and were visible until Saturday morning outside her Brentwood home.
Both California police agencies scrambled this week to protect Harris after President Trump, her rival in November’s election, revoked Harris’s Secret Service protection last week. President Biden had extended that protection for Harris beyond the six months after leaving office that vice presidents traditionally get.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had directed the LAPD to provide the security team to assist the CHP in the short term. According to sources, those Metro officers had to be drawn away from crime suppression work in the San Fernando Valley this week.
The department is “assisting the California Highway Patrol in providing protective services for former Vice President Kamala Harris until an alternate plan is established,” said Jennifer Forkish, L.A. police communications director, on Thursday. “This temporary coordinated effort is in place to ensure that there is no lapse in security.”
The CHP has not indicated how the LAPD’s move would alter its arrangement with the former vice president nor said how long it will continue.
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As my colleague Rusty Weiss reported in late August, President Donald Trump rescinded Harris' Secret Service protection in accordance with the 2008 Former Vice President Protection Act, which allows for SS protection to stay in place for six months after a VP leaves office. Unbeknownst to the Trump administration, former President Joe Biden extended Harris' protection beyond that, so Trump simply reset the terms in accordance with the law and his office. Of course, Bass, who loudly decried ICE enforcement in Los Angeles, rushed to ensure Harris remained protected, pulling members from LAPD's elite Metro forces in order to do babysitting duty for a woman and her husband who live in one of the "safer" enclaves of Los Angeles, and who are not lacking in resources to pay for their own security detail.
A dozen or more LAPD officers began working a detail to protect Harris after Trump revoked her Secret Service protection as of Monday. Sources not authorized to discuss the details of the plan said the city would fund the security but that the arrangement was expected to be brief, with Harris hiring her own security in the near future.
A security detail was seen outside Harris’ Brentwood home by a Fox 11 helicopter as the station broke the story of the use of L.A. police earlier this week.
EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell @FOXLA as many as 14 of LAPD’s elite Metro officers are now assigned to protect former VP Kamala Harris 24/7 after President Trump revoked her Secret Service detail.
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) September 4, 2025
LA Mayor Karen Bass’ office tells us, “This is another act of revenge… This puts the… pic.twitter.com/dOeqnSQg8A
EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell @FOXLA as many as 14 of LAPD’s elite Metro officers are now assigned to protect former VP Kamala Harris 24/7 after President Trump revoked her Secret Service detail.
LA Mayor Karen Bass’ office tells us, “This is another act of revenge… This puts the former Vice President in danger and I look forward to working with the Governor to make sure Vice President Harris is safe in Los Angeles.” V/C - @sdprod and @justinobrien recorded unmarked LAPD cars outside the Harris home Wednesday.
According to our sources, the assigned officers are being pulled from crime suppression efforts.
LAPD union bosses were none too happy about this, and they sounded off.
The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents rank-and-file LAPD officers, criticized the move.
“Pulling police officers from protecting everyday Angelenos to protect a failed presidential candidate who also happens to be a multi-millionaire... and who can easily afford to pay for her own security, is nuts,” its board of directors said.
The statement continued, “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.”
Newsom, who was required to sign off on CHP protection, has not confirmed the arrangement to The Times, but a spokesperson for Newsom added: “The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulse.”
Newsom would know about erratic and vindictive political impulses. This is the governor who personally tried to thwart the voters' desire to overturn his personal baby, Prop. 47. This deceptively written 2014 ballot measure was backed by Harris herself and written by their good friend George Gascón. Dubbed "The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act," it claimed the initiative would reduce incarceration and free up the criminal justice resources by reclassifying non-violent crimes as misdemeanors. Instead, in the 10 years after the measure was voted in, it single-handedly contributed to the rise of rampant crime in the state, and voters had had enough. Californians for Safer Communities Coalition mounted a signature campaign to get Repeal Prop. 47 on the ballot, and the organization succeeded with Prop. 36.
Vindictive Newsom worked openly to try and get Prop. 36 removed from the ballot, but failed. Then, he tried to get his Democrat supermajority legislature to put in poison pills that would remove the teeth from Prop. 36 enforcement. Newsom's final bitter act was to try and wedge a competing measure on the ballot in order to further confuse voters. In 2024, 70 percent of the voters approved Prop 36, reversing the damage Newsom and Harris had caused. This and Trump winning the presidency practically drove Newsom over the edge. Of course, Newsom has refused to allocate funds to enforce Prop 36. Instead, he is pouring millions into his gerrymandering scam. Safety for me, but not for thee, is clearly his motto.
Dive Deeper: California's Prop 36 Passes, a Resounding Condemnation of the Soft-on-Crime Policies Destroying the State
So, this rush to ensure Harris wouldn't experience any lapses in security was yet another slap in the face to California citizens, and a reflection on how little leadership cares about their safety. Bass and Newsom fight harder against Trump than they ever will for their taxpaying citizens, and everyone knows it.
In terms of pulling the plug on Harris' detail? It only took one week and one citizen journalist to expose how this "elite" detail was really spending its time.
WATCH:
Los Angeles was giving private security to Kamala Harris at the cost of taxpayers.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) September 7, 2025
Cops protecting her were confronted as they ate and watched football. One guy ID’d himself, the rest refused.
LA ended Kamala’s detail Saturday after public criticism.
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Why Bass and Newsom haven't been run out of town on a rail beggars belief. But the quick action to strip Harris' LAPD detail shows that these failures are on a short leash with the citizenry and devoid of any further goodwill or political capital. It's only a matter of time.
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami fought against the former L.A. DA Gascón and also ran against him for the office. Hatami took to X to call out everybody involved in this Harris/LAPD security debacle, and ably exposed the hypocrisy of forcing the taxpayer to supply protection for Harris that she is well able to afford herself. Even more rich: protection that Harris has consistently denied the average citizen in her decades of "leadership" in California and when she served as Vice President of the United States.
According to the LA Times, the LAPD has discontinued protection for former VP Kamala Harris.
— jonathanhatami (@jonathanhatami) September 6, 2025
Another complete embarrassment.
As a child abuse protector, a husband to a Deputy Sheriff, a dad, a veteran, and someone who was raised poor, went to public school and junior college…
According to the LA Times, the LAPD has discontinued protection for former VP Kamala Harris.
Another complete embarrassment.
As a child abuse protector, a husband to a Deputy Sheriff, a dad, a veteran, and someone who was raised poor, went to public school and junior college and used the GI Bill for my education, President Trump, VP Harris, Mayor Bass and Gov Newsom are all acting like children regarding this secret service protection drama.
I am no fan of Harris. Anyone who supported Gascón repeatedly and Prop 47 among other nonsensical things doesn’t care about me, our children or our communities’ safety. That being said, I wasn’t personally against the extension of her secret service protection for another year. However, I find it beyond amusing that a multi millionaire living in Brentwood who constantly claims crime is down and firearms are bad needs armed secret service protection paid for by the taxpayers, but all of these politicians are do as I say not as I do.
Even though Bass has a huge budget crisis on her hands in LA and she knows full well how short-staffed LAPD is, and how home burglaries have overwhelmed our residents in the Valley, she, also a “crime is down” person, said LAPD should provide Harris 14 officers at the cost of the safety of the rest of us poor folk. Bass - politicians aren’t more important than the rest of us.
Newsom said “The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulse.” Another hypocrite - hey Newsom, we can all say the same thing about your 15 year support of Gascón and what he did to the safety of San Francisco and Los Angeles. The safety of our public should never be subject to your erratic political impulses. So be quiet.
The LA PPL said: “Pulling police officers from protecting everyday Angelenos to protect a failed presidential candidate who also happens to be a multi-millionaire … and who can easily afford to pay for her own security, is nuts.”
“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.”
I agree with my PPL sisters and brothers 100%. Most of us don’t live in Brentwood and aren’t millionaires. LAPD should protect and serve ALL families, children and communities equally, not rich politicians in Brentwood homes who say “crime is down” anyways.
Mic drop.
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