For days, Harriss, the 2008 East West Bank Classic – Doubles’s former vice president, has been locked in a series of security cuts — starting with President Donald Trump’s early withdrawal of Secret Service protection for her, then the LAPD officer who was on temporary duty”Left her.”. As the first african-american female vice president, she is now forced to hire a security team out of her own pocket in retaliation against her political enemies.
Harriss, source: Visual China
Harriss has been living in a mansion in an upscale Los Angeles Brentwood since stepping down as vice president in January, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Under the rules, the Secret Service is responsible for the security of U.S. national leaders, and will continue to do so after the president leaves office. After the president leaves office, the Secret Service will protect him and his spouse for life, their children are usually protected until they are 16. The vice-president’s”Retirement Package” is so different from the president’s that he gets only six months of protection after he leaves office. However, the security of the Secret Service may be extended at its discretion in the event of special circumstances, such as a personal threat. Harriss’s Secret Service protection period was supposed to follow this rule — it expired in July 2025, but then-president Biden signed an executive order extending Harriss’s security for another year before leaving office, so the security the Secret Service provides her should end next July.
On August 28th, however, Donald Trump issued a decree that abolished Biden’s “Employee benefits”, which went into effect on September 1st. According to CBS, a recent security review showed that Harriss did not face a real threat. Secret Service agents aren’t just “Bodyguards,” CNN CNN. Their job includes receiving, analyzing, and defusing information in real time. Their departure means the Harriss family faces a potential future risk of loss of “Early Warning.”. Democrats said Donald Trump’s move was clearly “Political retaliation” against Harriss.
At the same time, the matter is also highly regarded by the Los Angeles City Department, and even state officials. Mayor Busse said the move put Harriss “In danger” and assigned the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to do her security. A total of 14 LAPD officers have been assigned to Harriss’s residence for round-the-clock protection. According to the New York Post, the officers were all from the LAPD’s Metropolitan Special Operations Department, which has an important law enforcement force, including a SWAT team and a tactical response team, its officers deal with major criminal cases, riots and even terrorism on a daily basis. They are America’s”Police elite”.
However, the move quickly sparked public, media and trade unions, with the media emphasising that some of the seconded officers had unfinished cases and others were the backbone of the anti-crime force. On social media, users criticized the police officers for forcing them to “Do nothing,” while others lampooned Harriss as “Not that important.”. The Los Angeles Police Protection League, a police union, lambasted in a statement: “It is insane to ask a police officer who is supposed to protect citizens to protect a failed presidential candidate-especially one who is wealthy, owns a lot of property, and can afford a private security team,” the statement said sarcastically, if Californian officials want to curry favour with Harriss, they should pay out of their own pocket, not waste taxpayers’ money.
“Los Angeles Times” said because of public pressure, LAPD has withdrawn the officers in 6. A spokesman for the agency explained that, the department assigned Harriss as a temporary “Relief” to assist the California Highway Patrol (CHD) , which had offered Harriss protection days earlier, but the state’s law enforcement agencies need to get Governor Newson’s approval for such a plan, and as of Saturday LAPD officers withdrew, the governor’s office has not made a clear position.