SFGTV2 July 9, 2013
Believe that pretrial release should be based on three things, risk of violence, risk of reoffending or flight risk. I think that we have inject ed for many many years a commercial value to safety that i think needs to be reevaluated for the reasons that have been stated. The reality is that the current commercial value to the pretrial release has not only had an impact for minorities. 24 percent of hispanics do not get to bailout. About 35 percent of African Americans do not get to bailout whereas white americans are right around 27 percent. But i think the problem we face is that we have not...