Okay thanks that link def helps, especially the video. But fuck me the issue is complicated.
So I get the idea that you dont want poor people languishing in jail for months or years awaiting trial because they cant afford bail. But how are they defining flight risk? And this works great if the courts are willing to bring people to trial quicker but I see nothing saying that side of things will change.
Also I totally get youre innocent until proven guilty, but what about those cases where somebody has like really obviously committed the crime. Like the fucker has been caught in the act of kidnapping someone and theres no doubt. Theyd still send him home awaiting trial free to reoffend whilst hes out there? And again I get in the eyes of the law hes still technically innocent until hes stood trial and pronounced guilty but seems like a lot of bad people are gonna get let loose depending on how theyre defining this.
But I suppose all youre really doing is affording these offenders the same benefit that a rich offender already has lmao