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A couple of days late, but IL becomes the first state to eliminate cash bail completely.

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Feb 24 '21, 09:12

Apparently it is a very well crafted law based on the experiences of other jurisdictions trying similar things. It's a good step. Police hate it.

here (www.npr.org)

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this is an incredible step. expect some hard pushback and lawsuits over it. -- nm - colin Feb 24, 09:34 3
- be aware too that the systems used to assess flight risk have been found to have a racist tilt -- (link) - colin Feb 24, 09:35
- The loss of revenue alone is something. -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 09:35 1
  - it's an entire industry gone overnight. thankfully, they're not part of a mega-corp that could lobby this down. -- nm - colin Feb 24, 09:36
So if I'm reading it correctly, previously the court could require that bail money could only be paid in cash, and not be paid in some other fashion? -- nm - JaxSean Feb 24, 09:30 7
- I thought all bail was cash only? -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 09:31 6
  - I thought there were bonds (i.e., bail bondsman), which isn't cash? -- nm - JaxSean Feb 24, 09:32 5
    - that's still cash. The bail bondsman takes collateral from you and pays the cash bail -- nm - decline Feb 24, 09:35
    - what little I understand - a person had to come up with a cash percent for the bond to be applied - Pippy Feb 24, 09:35 2
      - Ok that kinda makes sense. So they've eliminated that fee? -- nm - JaxSean Feb 24, 09:43 1
        
        Nope. All cash bails are eliminated - decline Feb 24, 09:49
    - I thought that was *why* there were bondsman. Their bond is the same as cash. -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 09:35
Nice! -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 09:18
I fully admit I have no idea what that means... oh, it means what I guessed it would, but did not believe it could be. Wow. -- nm* - Spawn Feb 24, 09:16 5
- bail will only be accepted in trade items such as chickens or apples -- nm - decline Feb 24, 09:17 4
  - Even shit apples like Red Delicious, or only good apples like Honeycrisp? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 24, 09:25 3
    - "We're a Cosmic Crisp town." -- nm - Beryllium Feb 24, 09:37
    - Depends, what are you in for? -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 09:26 1
      - Boosting a sweet, sweet Miata -- nm - Pippy Feb 24, 09:29
I'm surprised that wasn't bigger news. And I'm surprised that IL was the first -- nm - prayformojo Feb 24, 09:12 1
- Same. I saw the news a few days ago and was so happy about it. -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 24, 09:30

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