Question: Illinois Ends Cash Bail System.....

@no1marauder said
You must be joking or pathetically ignorant.

The vast majority of arrests are for drug "crimes", petty misdemeanors or simple assaults or other minor crimes. Violent crime rates have been dropping for more than three decades.

Here's the FBI arrest data for 2019 the last year I could find: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-29

There were over 10 million arrests made and only about 5% of these were for violent crimes as defined by the FBI. Of these, close to 80% were for aggravated assaults, meaning only about 1 in a hundred arrests were for murder, rape or robbery.

Now maybe techsouth and Aj think we should pack another 10 million folks in custody for indefinite periods, but we already have 1.7 million people incarcerated (the highest rate in the world). This has a direct cost of approximately $182 billion per year. https://bjs.ojp.gov/

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/US.html#:~:text=With%20nearly%20two%20million%20people,1%25%20of%20our%20adult%20population.

@no1marauder said
Here's the FBI arrest data for 2019 the last year I could find: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-29

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My firm might consider you for a research position if you are interested. You are good at it, you may definitely trip me up sometime .