In a 5-2 ruling Tuesday morning, the state’s highest court overturned a ruling by a Kankakee County judge that the law ending cash bail was unconstitutional. The end to cash bail will now go into effect across the entire state on Sept. 18, according to the Illinois Supreme Court ruling.
Sounds like Illinois wants to be the new smash and grab capital of the country. Why would police enforce laws when they know they will see that same person back on the street within a day?
Relaxing the laws to ease the jail system has worked amazingly well for San Fran.
These types of things make it so easy for the criminals to break the moral of police officers. During the car ride to jail, they start saying stuff like, “why are you wasting your time, I’ll be back there in 6 hours!”
Police will enforce the law because that’s what police do. Locking up poor people without a trial is a bad idea. Book them into the system, then see them at their court date. If the don’t show up, they become a fugitive. It just means these seedy bail bond companies charging huge rates will have fewer poor people to prey on. I think only the richest should have to pay bail.
That’s painfully naive considering we’re in year three of a deliberate slowdown
It’s great to see people that genuinely think that imprisonment without trial is the way to go. Really warms the heart.
The blame for that lies squarely with the judge’s decision to release them. The only factor should be whether they’re likely to be a social harm, not whether or not they happen to have money for bail, which is a completely unrelated matter.
Or the DA not pressing charges.
Because they’ll eventually be convicted? Or are you asking why police will bother arresting people they don’t think will be convicted? Because the answer to that is really simple: they absolutely should not, because we’re not living in a police state (in theory, anyway).