Your opinions on a "no bail" system?

[Boxfan83]

So California has this Yes on 25 ballot ending Cash bail. F'n ****** in my opinion with all the hypes and tweakers walking around. Anyways, I'm voting No.

Anyone have any Pros on a "no bail" system? I can only think Cons...

[Robbie Barrett]

Cash for bail is a ****** system. It should be based on risk. Money shouldn't buy you freedom.

[johnbook]

So California has this Yes on 25 ballot ending Cash bail. F'n ****** in my opinion with all the hypes and tweakers walking around. Anyways, I'm voting No.

Anyone have any Pros on a "no bail" system? I can only think Cons...

Bail always works both ways. May let bad guys out who'll only do more crime. Not allowing bail though will prevent the wrongfully arrested from getting out and trying to help themselves prove their innocence.

I believe the justice system proclaims that at all costs, should not incarcerate someone who is or might be innocent. Many "certain" guilty people were later proven to be innocent.

Maybe bottom line is, it could be us who is falsely arrested, shouldn't we then have the right to be bailed out?

And bail should be reasonably set and not just for the millionaires.

[QueensburyRules]

- -No crime = No bail.

So Simples even Thugs can figure it out.

[Eff Pandas]

For most crimes I'm anti-bail. I think it's turned into a bit of a government hustle & way to keep mfers locked up for low level bs.

I had to spend the weekend in jail (to see the judge Monday morning) once over a bs warrant over some $60 fine or some sh^t cuz I didn't have ~$200 cash on me & these mfers don't take debit cards.

We've turned into some level of a police state & I'm not a fan of it.

[GhostofDempsey]

I think bail needs a common sense approach. Difficult when it can be at the discretion of DA or courts. If someone commits a serious crime and pose a flight risk then bail should be set accordingly. If someone has some chicken-shyt warrant for a minor violation and has never been in trouble with the law, adding bail to the equation doesn't seem necessary. Book them, release them and get them to commit to a payment arrangement for the initial offense. If it's a narcotics related charge, robbery, burglary, looting, assault, etc., too bad, they knew the risks and they accepted them.

[Boxfan83]

I don't think anyone should go to jail for any kind of infraction like in Eff Pandas case.

Its just common knowledge most people that commit crimes petty or not, have some kind of substance abuse issue, good luck on ever having justice served.

[man down]

Anyone have any popcorn? This is going to be good.
We've already seen what happens when they release people without bail or when other bail random people out. They go right back to doing the same old stuff.

[johnbook]

People are missing the point when they cite serious crimes. Many recent documentaries show people freed after decades in prison for ****, murder etc, that were later proven to have been falsely arrested and convicted.

It could happen to anyone. Cops, D.A.s often have a hardon for innocent people. Some D.A.s have very high conviction rates.

In the great Doc, Thin Blue Line, a D.A. says, " A good prosecutor gets a guilty man convicted, but a great prosecutor gets an innocent man convicted."