I’m glad that Texas Democrats are finally learning facts about our broken cash bail...
, who, when challenged for his position, pointed out that the only losers under the new legislation were bail bonds agencies who “made a fortune over the years predominantly off of the poor.”
In contrast, my home state of New York, where I spent my career as a police officer for the NYPD, passed bail reform with little to no Republican input or support. Implementation lacked buy-in and made it difficult for police to do their duty to protect the public. New York’s experience with a well-intentioned but
has proven why it is critical for conservative voices in favor of smart-on-crime bail reform to be heard loud and clear.Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Nathan Hecht has been a longtime advocate of replacing our broken cash bail system with a constitutional risk assessment. “We think that you ought to release people who are charged with offenses on their personal recognizance if they’re not a risk of flight or a threat to the victims or recidivism or anything like that,” he
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