Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah (Screenshot)

(CNSNews.com) – In an interview Wednesday with the “Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said President Donald Trump is wrong to think that Democrats love crime and hate the police.



She said this mindset shows he does not understand who communities are.



“In my mind, it’s simple, but I agree he has created this false choice and this paradigm that suggests that he really doesn’t understand who communities are. It is a mistake and a myth to suggest that certain communities don’t want police. They do,” Harris said.



“What they don’t want and what no community should want is excessive force, racial profiling, and unequal application or enforcement of the law. We have to have an understanding also that this president has suggested that so many issues are issues about national security and public safety that are a figment of his imagination, and including the vanity project called the wall,”she said.

“You’ve come under criticism recently where people say you had some programs that some feel targeted minorities or communities that didn’t have the means, for instance, truancy programs. Mothers were threatened with prison because their children weren’t going to school or weren’t where they were supposed to be. When you look at your past – I know what you’re proposing now, but what do you think was the biggest thing that changed the way you saw criminal justice reform?” Noah asked.



“First let me say this. I will never regret having prosecuted people who molested children, people who raped women, people who murdered other individuals. Those are serious crimes for which I believe there should be serious punishment, and I’m never going to apologize for that, and I think most people would agree that when one human being harms another human being, especially those who are weak and vulnerable, that there should be serious and severe consequence and accountability,” Harris said.



She also complained that the criminal justice system needs reform, because it’s biased.



“We also know, and I was born knowing that this system of criminal justice in this country needs reform. It has been biased. There is systemic racism. We have had a policy in place in this country that has led to massive incarceration where we have incarcerated more people per capita than any other civilized or advanced, so-called advanced country, and it needs to be reformed,” the senator said.