Understood. So you advocate for a tiered bail system where poorer people sit in jail until trial but rich people do not?
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Replying to @runako @GehaniNeil and
I'm an advocate for the harmless citizens. My heart goes out to them first. If that tiered bail system keeps them safer(which it does) then I'm all for it. Unless you have a better idea?
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Replying to @facts16966471 @GehaniNeil and
We don’t know that it does, because we haven’t tried an alternative. (The SF plan is incomplete at best.) My idea is to protect Constitutional rights for everyone first. A wealth-based system doesn’t do that. Need to solve in the context of Constitution.
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Replying to @runako @GehaniNeil and
What would you do to make sure that people return to courts for their dates?
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Replying to @facts16966471 @GehaniNeil and
Something that applies regardless of wealth. Maybe we use....technology? Wanton abandonment of the Constitution under the guise of security is not an acceptable answer.
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Replying to @runako @GehaniNeil and
That's not an answer. Technology doesn't work as proven over and over by ankle monitors. People are given ample opportunities in the US to improve, gain wealth without crime. So if you want to propose a change in the system, please propose a better system.
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Replying to @facts16966471 @GehaniNeil and
The Constitution is a good system. We should start with it.
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Replying to @runako @GehaniNeil and
All men equal in the eyes of the constitution. If you and I are booked for a homicide all of us have to come up with a bail of $1,000,000. How is this unequal?
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Replying to @facts16966471 @GehaniNeil and
The bail amount is set so that some people will have it and some won’t. If bail is $150B then I agree it’s equal and fair.
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Replying to @runako @GehaniNeil and
We make efforts towards that by not federally taxing the poor AT ALL. We cannot reach ultimate equality because we are all indeed different. You might be taller, I might be stronger, someone else might be smarter. We use those set of skills to achieve what we can.
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And yet when it comes to pre-trial detention, we think it’s okay for the poor or middle class to de facto not have the presumption of innocence?
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