The Death of Public Safety and the Rise of Private Giving
For decades the bail profession has been screaming from the rooftops that eliminating secured bail would lead to more crime. And no one listened.
How Private Giving Forces Government Agencies to Comply or Go Broke
For decades the bail profession has been screaming from the rooftops that eliminating secured bail would lead to more crime. And no one listened.
When the bail reform activists said that cashless bail was just as effective as financially secured bail, we screamed from the rooftops once again, calling out their research. And no one listened.
When Arnold Ventures told our elected officials that they created a so called "evidenced-based" risk assessment tool that could predict a defendants' future behavior, we screamed from the rooftops, calling out their false claims. And no one listened.
When Chicago eliminated all forms of secured bail and promised safer streets and communities, we screamed from the rooftops, warning them. And still no one listened.
The common thing amongst all those instances is that the bail profession was right. When cashless bail was utilized, crime did go up. The studies showing cashless bail is just as effective as secured bail have been shown to have major deficiencies and questionable sources. Arnold Ventures risk assessments were found by Harvard to have zero predictive capabilities. And after Illinois eliminated financially secured release, crime is still up and the jails are still full.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that bail agents are always correct. What I am saying is that sometimes, our elected officials need to start using common sense. They need to stop buying into the overpromises and false claims being sold to them by billionaire activists and their mob of social justice warriors.
The most recent example of billionaire activists forcing their will on communities comes out of Allegheny County. In an article written in Law Enforcement Today, a former pretrial services manager blows the whistle on what is really happening inside our criminal justice system...and it has NOTHING TO DO WITH PUBLIC SAFETY.
The author, Kelly Rae Robertson, worked in a pretrial services agency for 14.5 years. She explains that the reason that jurisdictions accept bail reform is because of the huge amount of grant and donor money that has flooded the system. Big money groups like Arnold Ventures and the MacArthur Foundation are funding the bail reform movement within these government agencies. According to Robertson, they are told by these donors to empty the jails. Don't require financially secured release, but rather, let everyone out on cashless bail. If they refuse...the grant money is eliminated. That doesn't sound like advocacy, it sounds like extortion.
