gtyellowjacket
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Is there any evidence that something like that happened in this case? If so what's the point? How many shootings are performed by someone who is already out on bail for another shooting? My guess is a tiny fraction, well under one percent. The idea that most gun crime results from serial criminals who keep shooting people while they await trial is silly.
As for bonding out - is it your belief that people should be incarcerated for years before they've been convicted of a crime? That's pretty frightening IMO. If anything we keep too many people held before an actual conviction.
The gun arrests for people on bail are higher than you think. I saw one study which is fairly dated but it puts the number arrested for gun crimes And on some sort of pre-trial release at 14%.
I saw some more recent studies where it showed that cashless bail programs did not increase or decrease gun crimes as many feared and that's good. But on the other hand, one of the ideas of cashless bail is let more people aren't going to cause violence out on bail so there's room for the violent criminals. I'd say there's room for improvement on that front.