The contentious issue of cash bail remains largely unresolved, pitting the President Biden's commitment to racial justice against persistent concerns about crime.
— which used a computer formula to decide whether a suspect posed a danger — was contributing to a rash of vehicle break-ins.
of the 2019 reforms to New York’s bail laws. Those reforms have since been scaled back by the state Legislature, but not nearly enough for Adams.For the most part, decisions about how much discretion judges have in setting bail are a matter for states, not the federal government, to decide. Federal cases are the exception, but they constitute a minority of court proceedings across the nation.
, Democratic strategist Ruy Teixeira described bail reform as a “pet cause of the progressive Left,” one of several that he warned would only help a Republican candidate like former President Donald Trump win back the White House in 2024.In his own remarks at Friday’s meeting, Biden resorted to a line he frequently deploys when discussing the surge in violent crime that began around the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The president has called cash bail a modern-day debtor’s prison. Whether you are detained while waiting for a trial should depend on the risks you pose, not your ability to pay,” a senior administration official told Yahoo News. “A judge should be making that decision based on objective information about risks to the community, not based on how much money you have.”
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