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I'm not too knowledgeable about how the system works, but isn't this kind of what we did, just now without any requirement for bail?
This seems to remove the only encouragement to return to court without an appropriate replacement.
To my knowledge, I thought bail was basically a 'loan' that you get back when you return to court.
Cash bail drastically over affects poor people. If you dont have money to put up or assests to leverage, you hsve to take a loan that costs 10% of the loan total, i.e if you need 50k, you still need 5k to give up.
If you cant do the above like many poor people, you are stuck in jail while not being convincted of a crime. This almost always costs you your job, your home, all your belongings, your car, custody of your children, on and on. There are countless horror stories of people spending years in jail awaiting trial to be aquiteed and released, having lost everything they have in the world while being found not guilty of the crime.
This system ends that. If youre a flight risk or violent, you stay in jail. If not, you can carry on your life until youre convicted, which is both just and reasonable. It puts the poor and the rich in the same justice system, and thats a good thing.
What? Yes, you get the bail money back. Otherwise, a bail bondsman would just be throwing that 90% away every time.
You know I can see the timestamps, right? You posted the comment at 17:09:18, I replied at 17:20:56, you edited at 17:24:00.
Even if you edited multiple times and that's only the most recent one, yes, in whatever time it was between me opening this post and submitting the comment, I did spend some time reading about bail, first just to make sure I wasn't crazy, and then just out of curiosity.
I have no idea what time I read your comment, so I have no idea how long I spent reading about bail, but sorry for being curious I guess.
Has anyone ever told you that you're kind of a douche bag?
Lol I like that you talked shit about their lack of understanding of the criminal justice system, yet you clearly didn't understand how bail works. Please try to do better in the future
I wrote a comment starting that I'm not knowledgeable and asking for more opinions.
You told me I don't understand it, need to read up more and that you have the answers. Then you have people correcting you and you need to edit and correct your comment.
Seems like I have the right amount of confidence in my response, and you are way too over confident.
Sounds like you just need to read up on some of the American criminal justice system before you comment on it!