How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social conventions?

Re:How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social... by engineer_22 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:13PM (#30364383)

->Elimination of cash bail in many parts of the US, most importantly New York (we were also very close to eliminating cash bail in California, but bail bond companies invested heavily to stop that)

Let's have a look at the latest unintended consequences. One example from central New York one man was arrested and released without bail on 16 separate occasions between November and January. [1] This policy is not working for anybody, it isn't helping him, it isn't helping his victims. He would have been better off in jail where he could take some time to cool off.

[1] cnycentral.com/news/local/oswego-county-man-arrested-16-times-in-nearly-three-months-police-cite-bail-reform

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Re:How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social... by micv on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:36PM (#30364650)

Do US courts not have the ability to refuse bail to people like this? You'd have the same problem if he had enough cash to afford bail. It seems like a complete failure of the system for him to even have the option of not being held on remand until trial.

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Re:How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social... by DangitBobby on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:10PM (#30367131)

Yes, denying bail was always an option. Bail is non-sensical. Either their alleged crime is severe enough to allow them to be free before sentencing or it's not. Money doesn't need to be involved.

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Re:How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social... by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:30PM (#30367323)

Might be more effective and cheaper to just help homeless people, rather than criminalize them like this.

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