[steveBK123]

I'll add that the #1 thing we heard over and over for bail reform advocates was - it's all these nonviolent drug offenders being locked up for using or selling a little bit of drugs!

But there are clearly many classes of "non violent" crimes which seem violent enough, and/or result in death. And as a lay person it's a bit opaque.

Given prosecutorial discretion in charging, there are things that could be murder or manslaughter, and therefore the same crime can be "violent" or "nonviolent" depending on some 50/50 charging choices by the DA... sometimes those choices being driven by what they think they can get a conviction on with a jury, not what they think the crime actually merits.