So if a guy murders your mom by burning her alive in her stolen car after savagely raping her, your number one concern is that he can see his family and live comfortably before his trial and sentencing? This kind of thinking is the dysfunction you should be worried about. Criminals good. Law enforcement bad. And before bemoaning the plight of some contrived story about a preferred category of citizen being arrested for drugs or whatever, everybody I know whose gone to jail (several) ALL of them did much, much more than they were arrested for. Some were friends. None of them were good people.

Judges aren’t robots, either. Bail is assessed by both means and severity of crime. If you’ve never been in a courtroom, you might not know this.