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Assistance you're talking about and whether they're federal or based on jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but i can tell you more broadly. what's that? federal. federal ah well, the federal bill system is different than the bail system state by state. um and in fact, in federal court, um it's much harder to keep someone in jail pending trial simply for the fact that they're poor, so those statistics aren't going to represent what's happening around the nation. but when you use that phrase of engaging in misconduct, we have to think about what we're measuring. it doesn't say that it's connected to ...

But with this amendment that's changed everything. churches have the tools to detain violent criminals to detain defendants who are likely to commit other offenses. and put the community at risk. >> chicago she public defender from mitchell has been opposed to the existing bill system for years. >> we're moving to a system that's more serious. a system that's more informant. and it's the sun that's more fair and. just >> a federal government report shows that more than 60% of defendants are detained pretrial because they can't afford to post bail. the report finding stark racial and gender dis...

Threat. eliminating the wealth-based advantage. >> in 35 years that i've been a prosecutor, this is probably the biggest change in the criminal justice system that i have ever seen. >> dupaige county state's attorney robert berlin was using the ads attacking the law -- >> violent criminals out on the streets. >> he and other states attorneys secured changes signed into law this month. >> i was a vocal critic back then, but with this amendment, that's changed everything. judges have the tools with violent criminals, to detain defendants who are likely to commit other offenses that put the commu...

Could highlight again still more questions with the bill system in your, explain. >> so under the criminal justice reform act that was passed in 2020, enacted in 2020, it says that judges could not impose bail on a number of cases, burglary was one of them and they adjusted to say certain burglaries you could but the point is even when they impose bail, it has to be in the least restrictive circumstances. for pretrial release and if they impose bail it has to be a bill that the defendant can afford. so basically the bill for somebody who can show no means other than being a burglar, is going t...

A lot of people in the catskill region in hudson valley care about those issues as well but i know it very well i represented that region. jon: that crime took place in the bronx, new york city is obviously having a raging crime problem right now. but not so much of state. do you really think crime resonates with voters there? >> absolutely. with a crisis and claimant of savior remember this cashless bill system, empty at the prison during culvert, still carried forth by the new governor hochul is affecting clients across this region. even in the rural and suburban areas where i am from and i ...