An assault and battery charge will generally get you a $10K bail. Assuming the typical bondsman charges 10%, that's a measly $1,000 to be walking the streets again after assaulting someone.
I can already hear the stampede of justice troopers coming to tell me that $1,000 of emergency funds is too much to ask of your average accused criminal. How many of you would be amenable to say, a $100 charge for an ankle bracelet? Or a work-release program that allows them to attend work while waiting for trial?
The first search result I got back says that median retirement savings are <$500 for youngish people.
That $1k is only "small" for us rich folk.
In fact your arrogant assertion that this isn't injustice is fucking offensive. I am having trouble not attacking you personally because of how ignorant you came off in this post.
They haven't been to court yet, they might be innocent.
the presumption of innocence is an international human right. justice-by-statistics is an extremely bad idea.
Considering that we are talking about bail (meaning 1-2 weeks in jail, not a lifetime in prison) and we have justice systems that are right 80-90% of the time, I lean towards the more pragmatic statistical approach.
The "internationally recognized human right" thing seems like a thought terminating cliche, not sure why that should be the end of the discussion.
i brought up the human rights angle because your line of thought appears to run counter to article 11 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights...but it's interesting that you can dismiss that by calling it a "cliche".