Re:Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Aboli...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @07:09PM
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> Bail is designed to prevent flight risk.
“Rationalized” rather than designed.
> It is set high enough that you'd have a hard time coming up with that much money without being forced to stay and appear.
In practice, it's not for the rich, and it's set high enough that the poor can't afford bonds much less the bail itself.
> Having strangers pay your bail means you have no reason to stay.
The project this provides an additional funding stream for already exists, and the vast majority of people whose bail is funded do not skip, so this is empirically not the case.
> People having a hard time making bail is working-as-intended.
It's clearly not working as intended by anyone who would fund the project this funds.
> If you dislike it, write to your senator.
Seeking change in the laws (which many people are, at local, state, and national levels) is not incompatible with seeking to take legal steps to mitigate harms of the current system in the meantime.
“Rationalized” rather than designed.
> It is set high enough that you'd have a hard time coming up with that much money without being forced to stay and appear.
In practice, it's not for the rich, and it's set high enough that the poor can't afford bonds much less the bail itself.
> Having strangers pay your bail means you have no reason to stay.
The project this provides an additional funding stream for already exists, and the vast majority of people whose bail is funded do not skip, so this is empirically not the case.
> People having a hard time making bail is working-as-intended.
It's clearly not working as intended by anyone who would fund the project this funds.
> If you dislike it, write to your senator.
Seeking change in the laws (which many people are, at local, state, and national levels) is not incompatible with seeking to take legal steps to mitigate harms of the current system in the meantime.