Still, police, prosecutors, judges, and on occasion privately owned prisons all can benefit, depending on local laws and whether the prison has been farmed out to a commercial entity, if for no other reason than the budget increase.
While some jurisdictions have safeguards which should eliminate conflicts of interest, in others department budgets get a piece of the revenue from seizures, and I can think of one jurisdiction where a judge was a part owner of the jail.
I do not believe the high bail amounts are so much for revenue as to sequester everyone at the scene.
That way, the police can control the media narrative from the start.
We both know the headlines come early in the cycle of any story, the retractions will be in fine print next to the legal notices. By then, most media will have dropped the 'stale' news and be on to some other story.
What I find distressing is that people here are cheerleading what (for those who are not members of the clubs involved) are charges and bail amounts that are out of proportion to bail or charges for any other event in the US.
The assumption by some here that the presence of anyone at the Coalition of Clubs meeting makes them party to the day to day actions of anyone else there who might be involved in criminal activities, not only flies in the face of the presumption of innocence, but would set a dangerous precedent for anyone who has been in the same room with a Democrat politician.
I will be using that. Thanks.