Dozens injured in Waukesha, WI at Christmas parade: Nov 2021 [update: 6 dead, over 40 injured][update: trial]

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@JRDelirious

I am a bit ambivalent about that. I know the purpose is to avoid a current inequity by which a kingpin who can post a million sleeps at home and someone who can’t scrounge together ten thou for street dealing sleeps in jail. And bail is strictly speaking not to keep you locked up for public protection, it’s a measure to ensure you do show up to court — so the court in this case might have rightly concluded “he isn’t going anywhere”. But still no-cash-bail or mandatory negligible “first-offense” amounts (set as if in a vacuum) seem to exclude a middle.

We could have a discussion about how the noble motivations of bail reform fail when it hits reality but that’s a different thread.

@nearwildheaven

I hate hearing the word “gentleman” (or “lady” for that matter) used to describe a violent criminal.

I’ve had to call criminals sir and ma’am for the last 20 something years. You get used to it.