| > For example, without the threat of forfeiture how do you ensure people actually show up to court? You do it the way Washington D.C. does, and has for a couple decades. > Without bail bondsmen how do you fund the extra police/marshals/sheriffs to find and arrest those who do not show up for court? With general taxes, rather than taxes on the criminally accused. > Without the ability to set bond amounts based upon offense characteristics and individual financial circumstances and criminal history, how do you prevent especially violent offenders with a likelihood of committing more violent acts while on pretrial release from committing new violent offenses? Money bail doesn't prevent that; pretrial supervision or outright bail denial can, and so that's how you do it, choosing the least invasive level of supervision that provides adequate security in the circumstances. > If you want to go the other direction and eliminate money bail, do you really want to police/prosecution to able to indefinitely incarcerate people until trial? Before trial isn't indefinitely except at the choice of the accused, because of the right to a speedy and public trial. > Do you want to seriously jack up the criminal penalties for failure to appear in lieu of money forfeiture? Yes, I want to punish the actually guilty in preference to punishing the merely accused. Do you seriously prefer the other way around? |