What is your alternative proposal for making sure people show up for trial?
No one should be sitting in jail because they are poor. Cash bail is a disgrace and must be abolished.
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All the ones that work perfectly effectively in other jurisdictions?
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In the UK we do not have cash bail.
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Well, technically we do have two potential conditions which have a financial basis - surety and security - but they are very infrequently used in comparison to the non-financial conditions such as residence, reporting, non-contact, tagging, curfew etc.
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Or, don't break the law.
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Cash bail allows those who break the law to get away without consequences. One of my teachers in high school raped his 6yo daughter, sat in jail for a single day before his family paid $40,000 to bail him out. If his family was poor he may have gotten what he deserved.
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This is literally not how pre-trial bail works.
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You’re right. They should probably be sitting there because they broke the law
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Read the Constitution
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Jail is different from prison. Jail is where people are held awaiting trial if they can't post bail. People are held in jail for up to a month and then the police decide not to bring charges to trial because they made the charges up
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I agree that changes need to be made to cash bail, but it doesn’t help your case to make claims about made up charges. It degrades the conversation.
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How else do you explain dropped charges, acquittals, and our history of lynching? Have you heard about the Central Park five?
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Mistakes happen but if you research this then youd see we can go back and forth for ever naming specific cases that support both sides you can't just focus on one case out of thousands and say that's how it always is that's just ignorant
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Well said Mike. The objective should be to come up with a reasonable solution that helps the accused as well as society
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Hence OP
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Maybe for lesser crimes. Let's keep the sexual assaults & crimes against children locked up tight until sentencing.
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Right - you're agreeing with him. Folks should be detained pretrial based on the danger they pose (or risk of flight), not based on their income. Of course, determining potential danger isn't altogether simple, but it's better than disproportionately punishing the poor
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Yes they should. If they can’t afford bail perhaps they should not commit crime
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But if they can afford bail, it's OK?
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