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Caliman73

(11,694 posts)
6. Once again, calling into question the cash bail/bond system.
Fri Oct 29, 2021, 07:25 PM
Oct 2021

Poor people in on an ounce of weed spend months in jail waiting on their trial, but people with money walk around free after committing actual, dangerous offenses.

In California, we had an amendment up in the last election or maybe 2018 to go to a "community safety" evaluation scheme for bail. While that system is also not ideal as the racism baked into the legal system (go CRT) would likely keep disproportionately affecting minorities, at least it actually sets a criteria for who should remain in jail awaiting trial and who should be able to be in the community, instead of, "This guy has money, or a house, or something he can put up for collateral. This guy doesn't" it doesn't matter that one guy has unpaid parking tickets and the other tried to poison a towns water supply. The guy with money walks, the guy without stays in jail.

This man is a direct danger to his neighbors and the community. He shot through his goddamned window, with the intent to harm children. I can only hope that all of his firearms and any other potentially deadly weapons were confiscated, but still, the guy is a menace.

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