Bernie Sanders calls for nationwide end to cash
bail during Democratic debate
by
Ben Feuerherd
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
2/7/2020 11:28:00 PM
Sen. Bernie Sanders called for an end to cash bail across the country at the Democratic debate on Friday night, saying there are hundreds of thousands of people locked up because they can’t afford a several-hundred-dollar fee.
Sanders made his call to end bail as the candidates debated America’s criminal justice system and how it affects minorities in the United States.
“Most people don’t know this. Tonight in America, 200,000 people are in jail without having been convicted of anything. Two hundred thousand people — because they can’t afford the 500 bucks they need to get out of jail,” Sanders said.
“That is outrageous.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Vesicant 2/7/2020 11:49:23 PM (No. 311649)
Because all those dhimmicrats can't vote from a jail cell.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
John Gee 2/7/2020 11:51:18 PM (No. 311651)
If Bernie's way is adopted, what is the result? If a person's alleged infraction is only serious enough to rate a $500 bail, it will fall into the category of "minor crime," more or less. One might be tempted to show leniency and compassion, as Jesus counseled.
But minor crime left unpunished, has a tendency to become major crime. Even the criminal class sees a degraded lifestyle in such a case. No one is completely immune to harm from a society that tolerates law breakers. And I believe Jesus mentioned something about not just talking the talk, but walking the walk as well.
If the bail goes away and judges really want to protect society, it will become necessary to change things, so that far few violators are offered bail at all. Is that Bernie's intention, or is it one o' them 'unintended consequences' we been hearing about?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
John Gee 2/7/2020 11:54:24 PM (No. 311652)
#1, that's not going to happen. I understand there is a Congressional "fund" created to help out Members in such cases. Tax monies of course.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 2/8/2020 12:10:16 AM (No. 311657)
These people want to overthrow our system and continue Obama's "fundamental transformation." They are serious and dangerously so... some more than others. They do not stop. They might be slowed down from time to time, but they are motivated by the utopian vision of a socialist paradise and they are excited about the aggregation of more and more power, and energized, curiously enough, by the ignorance of larger and larger segments of our population, people who have been educated to hate their own country. Don't forget that Jonathon Gruber, one of the architects of Obamacare, said that the Administration got this massive bill done owing to the "stupidity of the American voter." Now those voters are NOT us! Those useful stupid voters were the lefties and Dems who elected BO, giving Gruber the big "mo".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Northcross 2/8/2020 12:12:35 AM (No. 311659)
I'm OK with that. Get rid of bail altogether, keeping all the thugs in jail awaiting their trial. A win-win. Completely fair to the thug population and safer for the non-thug population.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/8/2020 1:06:57 AM (No. 311677)
Must be Bernie wants to commit more criminal sleaze by ripping off taxpayers, businesses, goobermints, and people so he doesn't have to use any of his ill gotten money on pesky bail and then flee to Russia, his homeland.
Thanks to Cuomo and his 100% demonrat run legislature, criminals in NY State and free to roam the countryside to maim and murder without fear of being locked up. To assist in their no-bail law, Cuomo is closing prisons to boot.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
rtwngprof 2/8/2020 1:49:55 AM (No. 311692)
Where does Bernie find federal authority to tell states what their bail-bond procedures can be?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 2/8/2020 2:00:06 AM (No. 311700)
They really are insane.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/8/2020 2:12:50 AM (No. 311709)
That is real convicted felon voter candy right there! Just let them out on their own recognizance and promise to appear for trial. Should work great and don’t forget to give them absentee ballots on the way out.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/8/2020 5:54:19 AM (No. 311743)
No cash bail? Fine. I never agreed with bail for serious crimes. Lock 'em up!!
No bail at all.
No ankle bracelets or parole board. If you're in, you're in. If you're found not guilty or served your time, you're out. Simple as that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/8/2020 5:56:52 AM (No. 311746)
I am once again reminded by lucianne posters that our current justice system is designed the way it is due to the paranoia of politicians who fear being caught and imprisoned for their crimes.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/8/2020 8:35:41 AM (No. 311869)
I wonder how many of those 200,000 people who are in jail because they cannot make bail are guilty and will serve time after their trial or be turned loose with time served?
Mostly there is a reason they are in jail to begin with. I don't believe there are many there who are innocent.
Perhaps a few.
We have seen in New York what happens when all are turned loose on recognizance. They get out and commit cromes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
moebellini3 2/8/2020 9:49:35 AM (No. 311965)
Well, the communist candidates debated cash bail in America’s criminal justice system and how it affects minorities in the United States. How about how it affects the law abiding American citizen. How about keeping the American citizen safe and stop worrying about career criminals. How's all that no bail working out in NYC. I'll tell ya. Criminals are immediately set free and have gone right back to committing crimes and preying on the law abiding citizen. Its a disaster, that's how its working out. And the fact of the matter is, minorities are in jail because they are committing over 60% of the violent crimes in our country. Look at Chicago, Baltimore, Oakland, NYC, Newark, St. Louis and others where murders and other violent crimes are out of control. And this is the communist response, no cash bail. Sick freakin people.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
paral04 2/8/2020 10:50:16 AM (No. 312022)
The question really is, why are there so minorities in jail in the first place?
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Because NYC is SUCH a pleasant place to visit now that criminals and thugs know that they won't spend any time in jail if they commit a crime against you!!