Judge Releases Rockland Driver Who Rammed Police Car At GWB After Multi-Town Chase (excerpt from the Daily Voice Aug 18 2019) A Rockland driver who was captured by Fort Lee police on the George Washington Bridge after he rammed a patrol car at the toll plaza during a wild chaseRead More →
California Supreme Court Steams Forward to Implement SB 10 and Risk Assessments Despite Calls by Prominent Academics from Coast to Coast to Stop As the fate of Senate Bill 10 remains on hold until a referendum vote at the ballot box in November of 2020, the California Supreme Court hasRead More →
NYPD Deputy Commissioner slams bail reform, says 99% won’t see jail cell (excerpt from the New York Post Aug 11 2019) Almost everyone arrested in the Big Apple — aside from those facing murder or attempted murder charges — will not see a jail cell until convicted under new bail rules,Read More →
New Harris County Misdemeanor Court Guidelines Under Fire After Murder of Pregnant Wife Harris county officials are still giddy over new bail guidelines even after it was revealed that accused murderer Alex Guajardo was first released for free under new bail rules after assaulting his wife only to then tragicallyRead More →
Local group says public safety is at risk if bail system isn’t fixed (excerpt from KHOU 11 Aug 6 2019) After a pregnant woman was recently stabbed to death by her husband who was out on bond, a local group says the bail system needs to be fixed. HOUSTON —Read More →
Monroe Co. DA Says NY Bail Reform Will Lead to “Catch and Release” (excerpt from Spectrum News Aug 6 2019) Local governments across New York State are preparing for bail reform arriving in January that will bring sweeping changes to how low-level felonies and misdemeanor crimes are prosecuted. It begins with eliminatingRead More →
Sen. John Kennedy: Bail, bond decisions are being made today with algorithms – That puts your safety at risk (excerpt from Fox News Aug 5 2019) Even if you’ve never heard of Edward French, his death should terrify you. Two years ago, the 71-year-old photographer was greeting the sunrise with his cameraRead More →
Police, residents upset by signature bonds granted to violent suspects (excerpt from Fox 5 Aug 1 2019) ATLANTA (FOX 5 Atlanta) – A man charged with aggravated assault in which he’s accused of attempting to strangle an individual got out of jail on a signature bond. That is one of manyRead More →
Algorithm Using Racist Drug War Data to Determine Missourians’ Freedom (excerpt from Filter – July 29 2019) An algorithm based on data from decades of drug war policing that disproportionately targets Black Missourians will soon, in part, determine whether or not a defendant is jailed before trial. The plan—recently institutedRead More →
End Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools Say Twenty-Seven Prominent Researchers from Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, UC Berkeley, and NYU In a publication date July 17, 2019 entitled Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns, twenty-seven prominent researchers encourage the end of the use of pretrial risk assessment tools asRead More →
