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by toomuchtodo 1001 days ago
It sounds like you’re saying cash bail fixes this because they can’t afford the bail and are held indefinitely until their court date.
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The only point that I made here is that without cash bail, there are simply no bounty hunters to consider at all. They don't exist, because there is no economic basis for their existence.

How we get people to appear for their court date when they have no reason to, is another story all together, and I have no idea. Obviously, someone living unhoused in society without assets to freeze or a home to confiscate, doesn't have much reason to show up. They are also the ones that couldn't pay bail anyways.