I'll add that the #1 thing we heard over and over for bail reform advocates was - it's all these nonviolent drug offenders being locked up for using or selling a little bit of drugs!

But there are clearly many classes of "non violent" crimes which seem violent enough, and/or result in death. And as a lay person it's a bit opaque.

Given prosecutorial discretion in charging, there are things that could be murder or manslaughter, and therefore the same crime can be "violent" or "nonviolent" depending on some 50/50 charging choices by the DA... sometimes those choices being driven by what they think they can get a conviction on with a jury, not what they think the crime actually merits.

Recklessly driving 90mph drunk in a 25mph zone / owning an illegal firearm and waving it around such that it kills someone, these aren't like.. random fluke "they just did it once" kind of things.

Did they intend to kill? No.

But what did they think was going to happen when they drove drunk 90mph / acquired an illegal firearm and used it recklessly?

Fatal reckless driving is not a threat to public safety?