It strikes me that two things are true at once here. One, that he absolutely should not have been granted such a low bail. Two, that cash bail is almost always something that penalizes the poor, not the worst offenders. This isn't a matter of 'true communism has never been tried.' It's been demonstrated that cash bail is a way for lots o…
It strikes me that two things are true at once here. One, that he absolutely should not have been granted such a low bail. Two, that cash bail is almost always something that penalizes the poor, not the worst offenders. This isn't a matter of 'true communism has never been tried.' It's been demonstrated that cash bail is a way for lots of places to keep their poorest offenders in jail, where they are then charged for it, and then are imprisoned longer because of their inability to pay. It is decidedly un-egalitarian that one's wealth should decide whether or not they are in prison.
Again, none of this means that this person should have been granted such a low bail. But that doesn't take away that cash bail is a racket designed to punish the poor.
Exactly. The fact that this guy should never have been out one bail doesn't negate the problem of cash bail and its effect on poor defendants. I wish we could have exactly that kind of nuanced discussion instead of looking for straw men to knock down.
The trick is get to state legislatures to adopt the federal system, but of course conservative legislatures in places like Wisconsin don't want to do that. So instead we get this.
It strikes me that two things are true at once here. One, that he absolutely should not have been granted such a low bail. Two, that cash bail is almost always something that penalizes the poor, not the worst offenders. This isn't a matter of 'true communism has never been tried.' It's been demonstrated that cash bail is a way for lots of places to keep their poorest offenders in jail, where they are then charged for it, and then are imprisoned longer because of their inability to pay. It is decidedly un-egalitarian that one's wealth should decide whether or not they are in prison.
Again, none of this means that this person should have been granted such a low bail. But that doesn't take away that cash bail is a racket designed to punish the poor.
Exactly. The fact that this guy should never have been out one bail doesn't negate the problem of cash bail and its effect on poor defendants. I wish we could have exactly that kind of nuanced discussion instead of looking for straw men to knock down.
The trick is get to state legislatures to adopt the federal system, but of course conservative legislatures in places like Wisconsin don't want to do that. So instead we get this.