Posted on 03/26/2023 7:38:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For all the death, misery and havoc that COVID-19 inflicted during its first three years, the pandemic did bring one short-lived benefit to the criminal justice system, at least in Los Angeles County. It led judges to eliminate money bail for many people accused of low-level crimes.
L.A.’s brief period of more perfect justice ended last year when the Los Angeles Superior Court rescinded its emergency zero-dollar bail policy.
Last November, several people who were stuck in jail because they couldn’t pay bail, along with some L.A. County taxpayers who foot the bill for the costly and wasteful practice of locking up people before trial, sued on behalf of others similarly aggrieved.
The demand for zero-dollar bail is righteous and should be granted.
People who are arrested are treated as if they were guilty, long before they have any opportunity to present their defense. They are fined, jailed or both, without a defense lawyer, without even a prosecutor, without a judge.
People with money can buy their way out. Whether we call this classism or make up a word like wealthism, it’s a close cousin to racism, given the wealth gap between white people and people of color.
This wealth-based system of pretrial detention is entirely inconsistent with the principle of equal justice under law. Zero-dollar bail, prudently administered, would be a step toward repairing the injustices that characterize much of the criminal system.
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COVID didn’t inflict death, misery and havoc over the last three years
Government did.
I have no Idea WHY people don’t see this as War against us.
This is killing and shattering lives but they have now concerns only shout virtue signaling to the mob at the tops of their lungs.
While DA’s pervert the Justice System using ALL of its weight and technology to destroy ANYONE who stands up against it.
It has to be “at least” FOUR DEAD before it can qualify for a spot on the Dung Beetle Party’s “Mass Shooting” list. I believe that the turd rollers raising the requirement of four bodies is helping to drive up the homicide numbers. If you want to make the list, you have kill “at least” four.
Locking up lowlifes arrested for an offense has always been effective crime control. Many people have been killed or maimed by criminals released on no bail.
Zero-dollar bail, prudently administered,
She uses the word but it does not mean what she thinks it means.
Well, OK, I guess the only answer is to try repeat, violent felons on the day of arrest and execute them immediately upon a guilty conviction? Because allowing them to continue their savagery on innocent citizens is unacceptable, except to anarcho tyrranists like the LA Times.
WHEN any of the Times Editorial Board get a serious blow from all the criminals being run thru the revolving doors -—THEN I want to hear about how COMPASSIONATE they are.
EDUCATED IDIOTS
Unintentionally hilarious.
The Times is full of crap.
Someone needs to introduce these editorial writers to the J6 defendants.
It is not the J6 defendants who are committing dozens of crimes after free-release to the streets by Soros DA’s and Soros prosecutors based on their race. (Black democrats or illegal aliens.)
The definition of low level crime keeps changing.
The J6 defendants don’t matter because they are MAGA creatures. If they locked me up would they let me vote for Trump? Doubt it.
It was never about a "more perfect justice"...it's about political power.
Eliminating cash bail would not help the j6 permanent prisoners because they could not receive any kind of bail.
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