Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of guilt or threat

Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by bdhess on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @09:16AM (#17715631)

How do you persuade “everyone” when the primary deterrent is a fixed fine that doesn’t scale relative to lifestyle?

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Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by cs02rm0 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:23PM (#17717200)

So now we're not looking at fines in relation to income but lifestyle?

I just think you cannot scale fines in relation to income/lifestyle/anything else financially. You can scale it, but you can't hit people with different incomes, assets, etc. in the same fashion, which ultimately smells of a bad system to me.

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Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by arethuza on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:31PM (#17717261)

So what would you recommend?

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Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by cs02rm0 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:32PM (#17717724)

Anything else.

The points system seems sufficent to me for most driving offences, beyond costs. But community service, prison time, curfews, anything which is equivalent and not open to manipulation.

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Re:Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of g... by arethuza on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @04:20PM (#17719096)

I wonder of all of the options what the speeder would have chosen - I suspect he would pay the money and move on.

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