The Dallas Police Department found out of 260 violent offenders released on bail or their own recognizance, 62 of them committed new crimes in a matter of months.
being released on bail, now the department has statistics to back up the claims.
62 of those individuals, nearly a quarter of the released suspects, were arrested again before May 15. Dr. Smith's analysis also found that out of 109 murder suspects arrested in Dallas last year about 1 in 3 were released on bail."I think it is eye-opening for people that don't work with this kind of data regularly to see the percentage of people who get out on bail," said Dr. Smith. "Far more get out in the Dallas sample would get out on bail than would ever happen in the federal system.""I am somewhat astonished, to be frank.
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