Re:How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social...
by mc32 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @01:53PM
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Is that due to simple usury or due to cost of risk? In other words, if enough of the bailed pop. skips bail (complete loss for bondsman), that money has to come from somewhere --and that somewhere may be both honest and dishonest criminals as well as innocent suspects.
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Re:How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social...
by lalaland1125 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:53PM
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It's a mix of both.
The bail bond industry (like most "vice" industries) has much higher profit margins than comparable insurance companies: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/bail-bo...