No Bail Required Now In CA: What Could Possibly Go Wrong

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How many profitable industries have grown up around the judicial system? From the bond system to community service, home detention, rehabilitative education, and ultimately the private prison systems. Too many people are getting wealthy off of the tax payers and people who make bad choices. At least when I over pay for some bad purchase, I have some good memories or some actual property.

Justice should be swift and related to the crime committed, but only after the defendant has been convicted. Sadly that is not what is happening. Legislators only have one tool; making laws. Criminal laws only create one thing; criminals. They have made so many laws that we are all criminals whether we are charged and convicted or not. Lawyers run the system and they have no incentive to do anything other than make more money and take more power from the free citizens of our nation.

I don't have any solutions but I am drawn to the words of Dick the Butcher; "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

Sort of.

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The bondsman isn't technically necessary. He is a service to defendants. Probably also saves the taxpayer money since the defendant isn't in custody awaiting trial. Cost of the bond is paid by defendant/family.

I would be far more supportive of this if CA had passed a bill limiting bail based on income/net worth. Then at least all defendants would have some skin in and a reason to appear. Hey, that would still be progressive, right?

Also more likely a defendant could post his own bail and not have to purchase the bond, lessening the impact of a bad arrest/charge.