To the editor: Thank you for the opinion article on bail (“The impulse to maintain more non -violent suspects in jail threatens public security,” September 30). Getting rid of bond is of vital importance, since a significant portion of arrested people are poor, people of color and/or accused of non -violent crimes. Some are innocent, but they cannot pay the Bond department, which leads to dramatic consequences: loss of work and reputation, family problems or, as the article, loss of lives.
This worsens even more when the crimes committed by the rich are minimized so often. A Jeffrey Epstein can continue to commit abuse for years and still strike agreements With federal prosecutors.
The bond is obviously unfair and does not make us safer, quite the opposite. Prisons are schools for crime and are insecure. The poor pay the price, innocent or not, and we, the taxpayers, step on the invoice.
Marie Matthews, San Pedro
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To the editor: Choose your poison if cash bail is restored. When it prospered widely, a large industry of bail link activators benefited. The elimination of cash bond decimated its ranks and for a good reason.
Of course, there are problems with the current system. But any remedy that simply restores cash bail will relive its well -documented historical disadvantages.
Gary Dolgin, Santa Monica
