-- Most of them have to wear those stupid ankle bracelets, at great dollar cost and probably great mental humiliation. --
That's not an "excessive bail" issue, that's an "absence of probable cause" issue.
-- I'm outraged at this blatant abuse of power ... --
Petersen and Reyna have civil rights too, as well as due process. They will likely be called to justify their actions.
As they are Civil Servants, their rights are different than the 117 non-criminal-record arrestees. Petersen and Reyna won't be accountable for their crimes until their crimes have played out on the victims.
When any of us are suspected of breaking the law, we're instantly called on it by civil servants, as the 117 "dangerous bikers" with zero arrest records were when they were deprived of their right to work for two weeks to a month or more, and had to pay thousands to return to their rightful lives.
But the criminal civil servants who deprived them of that right, maybe might just answer for it in a few years. Unlike our own rights would allow were we to "break the law" to prevent them from doing it again. It's getting just spooky, sorry, but that's the ultimate destination, IMO, as long as obvious right vs obvious wrong is ignored for "due process" giving civil servants different rights than the people they serve.
Thanks for your great posts that help clarify things. Lawyer-ese is different than normal speak.