Most other countries have figured out how to serve justice without a system that discriminates against the poor.
Too many people can’t afford the down payment or can offer a collateral to get a bail financed those who can end up being indebted to them you are advocating for the legalization of loan sharks.
https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/oct/09...
> "Only Duterte’s Philippines and Trump’s United States of America have money bail."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/huawei-meng-...
If the bond costs 10% then you can’t pay bail if it’s set to 10 million or even a million or even lower for most people, if it’s capped at say $100 something that even some US states do then it’s not as much of a problem.
If you look at the US bondsman industry it’s focused on the states not with the highest average bail set but those with the highest prices on bail bonds.
It’s a multi billion dollar industry which effectively taxes the poor.
Make bounties illegal and it fill fall, once it falls the entire bail system in the US will have to be rethought as there isn’t a way to lock so many people up, more judges will release them until trial without setting a bail which they can already legally do and do so for minor offenses.
In a country where judges are elected a multi billion dollar has a lot of power in determining how bail is set by the courts.
If you think that judges that get donations from bondsmen don’t take that into account when setting bail you are very naive.
This is the exact same problem as private prisons the justice system should not be monetized for profit.
Also, Oregon doesn't just outlaw bounty hunters as part of our own process, we outlaw them altogether. Bounty hunting is classified as kidnapping.
While there are many things Oregon could do better, there are a whole bunch of things, like this, which I think we are absolutely right on.
A perfect, no-frills example of the typical dynamic between bail bondsmen and government.
How strange that I received the maximum possible bail amount for a crime that I didn't even commit. Surely there couldn't have been an incentive for the son of the guy who makes the laws to illegally prosecute and fine a minor whose only way to finish graduating high school is to pay the damn fine, so that the guy who makes the laws could collect that fine... That would just be corrupt.