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Um, 10k feels a bit low...
Citizens still face steeper bail over weed charges. There should be no chance of bail for crimes against children, doubly so for foreigners as they are such a flight risk.
I am not saying I have a better solution, but how long do you think it would take for such a rule to be used to lock up trans people or drag queens?
I hate how right you almost certainly are. I still say that at very least foreign nationals accused of sexual and violent crimes should be held without bail so can't simply flee the country.
It's not a matter of amount; the whole idea of bail is fucked up.
You are a criminal and a danger to society, therefore you have to be locked away.
Unless of course you have some money.
I agree that the bail system is bad (both practically and morally).
To be clear though, people on bail have not yet been demonstrated in court to be guilty of the crimes they've been accused of. I don't think locking up anyone accused of a crime while they await trial (which could be years) is an improvement.
Doesn’t the constitution guarantees a speedy trial. If he got arrested then they already have evidence tying him to the crime.
Yes, it does guarantee that. But you're still going to be in jail for weeks to months until your trial is concluded. Many people have been held for years in pretrial detention before being released.
How long would your job keep you on payroll if you were arrested and held in jail? How long would you be able to pay rent or provide for your children? Even a few weeks is enough to be devastating to most people.
In 2019 the average pretrial detention for felonies in New York State was 10 months.
Seems like America has failed to keep up with its own constitution. Either hire enough people to actually expedite the process or throw away the concept that the constitution is important.
We have infinite money for wars, jails, billionaire tax cuts. We apparently don’t have the money to make our legal system work because Americans are too dumb to know the difference.
Bail is a joke. It’s only meant to keep poor people locked up while the wealthy criminals walk around without punishment.
He is white