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Why do you think it will increase petty crime?
It depends on how it's enforced.
Where I live they ended cash bail for any non-felony offense and it's led to repeat offenders being picked up, released and they'd offend again, where they get picked up and then released again.
It's a complex issue, many of these people need mental health help, and putting them in jail isn't the solution, but allowing them to continue to walk free when they're known re-offenders isn't helping either.
Is the problem that they are just releasing all non-felony offenses instead of evaluating them in place of the cash bail process?
Because using cash bail was just evaluating and adding a layer that costs the accused money based on their risk, and without it they should still be taking the same steps to determine the risk.
I'm in... Uh... Not Chicago...ill say that. Crime downstate is running pretty rampant right now. There's a lot of gang violence, and we are at a record clip for gun violence.
What kept a lot of that in check in the early 00s was the people committing the harder crimes were getting picked off by lower level stuff.
However, after being pretty intimately involved in our justice system as of late, that's stopped. The cops just aren't interested in dealing with the fallout of picking up people for petty / low level felonies. It both political and resources keeping them from getting involved.
The result is, unless there's a gun involved, the cops aren't coming.
Combine that with the few times they do get someone, and said person is immediately released, we are in trouble.
The really interesting case that's going to happen... Trespassing. Let's say I'm pissed and go sit on my ex's porch. The cops pick me up for Tresspassing, I get released and go sit right back on her porch. If I'm not threatening or being violent, that's a completely plausible situation.
In short, the people who want cashless bail have never been around criminals. For those of us that actually need protected, we are fucked.
Sounds like the police where you live kinda suck at their job.
If you mean the State of Illinois, then yea, I'd agree with you. It's not good times here after dark.
That sounds like a police oversight problem, not a bail problem.
If you're not threatening anyone but you do it again, that's a violation of your bail conditions (presumably they would have told you to stay away from her and her house/work/whatever), and you'd sit in jail until your hearing.