08-31-2020, 07:38 PM
(08-31-2020, 06:20 PM)fredtoast Wrote: What is wrong with helping someone post bail? The entire bail bonding industry is based on doing just that. Why isn't everyone complaining about them?
Well, actually, a lot of people are complaining about that. Just not in the way you're alluding to.
https://www.davisvanguard.org/2020/08/ca-supreme-court-order-ushers-in-new-era-of-bail-in-state/
As to complaining about the Bail Bondsman, the Bondsman has a responsibility to ensure that those they bonded out are brought before the court. This "non-profit" does not, not if they're posting the entire bail amount. Also, as the defendant stands to lose nothing by failing to appear would that not heighten their flight risk? The possibility of losing your bail amount is the major incentive to show up for court, at least in theory.
Quote:And why is it okay for wealthy people to make bond with their own money, but not poor people with the help of someone else?
Who said it wasn't OK? The issue is should politicians be lobbying for a "non-profit" who is using the funds donated to them to bail out violent offenders. Also, unless I'm reading this incorrectly, and Bel can correct me if that is so, this "non-profit" was advocated for as posting the bail of people who caught charges due to protesting. I don't think bailing out attempted murderers and child molesters was on their promotion materials.
Quote:Over half of the people setting in jail are not there because they have been convicted of a crime. They are there because they can not afford bail. Incarceration should be a punishment for breaking the law, not a punishment for being poor.
Or they've been remanded. C'mon Fred, you'd a public defender, you should have known to include that option as well. Why didn't you include it?
Quote:Solution to what?
To violent offenders being released. You and I both know what a high bail amount is for, why are you pretending like you do not?