Less institutional class war and racism is a good thing.
And you think that's the end result here? How adorably naive.
California just essentially washed their hands of the problem and surrendered. They turned over all responsibility to the courts, each of which will make up their own rules. For every one that determines that minorities are oppressed by the cash bail system and be more lenient, others will come out with a completely different result of their own agenda-ized "risk assessment" and determine that many minorities are greater threats, higher flight risks and withhold or restrict bail. This isn't a good law, it's a cop out. Now every person that's held by court district A on a similar charge that gets you released by court district B will be screaming bloody murder.
I understand that. But the article makes it sound like if you are charged with assault or your third DUI that you will sit in prison on remand with no possibility of bail, which is also messed up.It's more like someone with no money gets a $1000 bail for a first time drug thing or whatever, sits in jail for months due to no money, then the DA drops charges for whatever reason. This has happened thousands of times in every state.
Anyone who thinks that isn't messed up has a brain deficiency.
Cool.And you think that's the end result here? How adorably naive.
California just essentially washed their hands of the problem and surrendered. They turned over all responsibility to the courts, each of which will make up their own rules. For every one that determines that minorities are oppressed by the cash bail system and be more lenient, others will come out with a completely different result of their own agenda-ized "risk assessment" and determine that many minorities are greater threats, higher flight risks and withhold or restrict bail. This isn't a good law, it's a cop out. Now every person that's held by court district A on a similar charge that gets you released by court district B will be screaming bloody murder.
Yes, they'll be a warrant for their arrest, but there's too many of those are going around already...
it's not just wasting taxpayer dollars. for low-income individuals, that loss of income can be financially crippling. if you're living paycheck to paycheck, and you sit in jail for 2 months because you can't post bail....you're pretty boned, even if you're found innocent at trial.
I can't really tell from the OP, but does this mean that people who would've had a high bail in the past may face remand?
I think this is a great idea for the people who faced low bails, but not sure about people with higher bails. It also says prior to arraignment, so is a normal cash bail set at arraignment?
Isn't the point of a high bail because a bail bondsman is less likely to give them the benefit of the doubt if they don't have the funds to begin with?
Are there pills you take... or should be taking?Fun fact: California is not unique. Baltimore has been doing something similar for a couple of years in the interest of easing the burden of bail and releasing people who are accused of minor crimes and can't afford bail. But Baltimore is also doing something similar to the Liberal winderland state and are applying an in depth algorithm of risk management, assessments of flight potential, danger to the community, past arrests, severity of charges, etc.
Anyone want to try to guess how this has worked in the real world? C'mon, you can do it if you have one brain cell and while that's beyond several of the biggest "progressive" fanboys here, the rest of you should be able to handle it.
In the real world, the number of poor people with good records, little money and accused of minor crimes being held without bail is WAY down. And the number of people with dodgy records, long arrest histories and no ties to the community that are being held without any chance of bail under the new risk assessment is WAY up. Anyone want to guess the demographics of the people that are on the wrong end of the new way of thinking and are being held longer than before because they're bad risks? Go ahead, take a stab.
The same program which is working as its intended to work and is freeing the non-dangerous is hailed as an end to class warfare and institutional racism while its simultaneously viewed as a weapon of class warfare and institutional racism because it's working exactly as intended and is being harder on the more dangerous.