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> This is why poor black neighborhoods are crime ridden and victimized.
Are you claiming this is unique to black neighborhoods? Why would there be a racial component to this issue at all?
> Your own efforts to believe in racial justice by any means undermine the outcome itself.
You appear to be the first person in this thread to invoke race.
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You posted several flamewar comments in this thread and unfortunately have a significant history of posting race flamebait to HN. We ban such accounts, so please stop that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You've also been using HN primarily for political battle for quite some time. That's against the rules here, and we ban such accounts—we have to, or else political flames will take over this place completely. If you want more explanation about that, see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... Either way, please stop doing this on HN.
Re:Abolish the Cash Bail System
by DonHopkins on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:30AM
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It's not that we don't want to talk about race, it's that we don't want to talk with a racist.
Arent people often let go without having to pay bail? At least i think that's how it works in canada (where im from) if they dont think its likely you will try to run and its not a particularly serious offence
Means testing flat-out doesn't work. There are plenty of people who get caught in the system who can afford exactly zero dollars for bail, and I find it damn near impossible that any system set up to make this "fair" would ever allow for the possibility that they need to let a person go with no bail paid at all.