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Bail Reform: The Failed Social Experiment
The Houston Courant ^ | March 23, 2020 | J. Gamaldi

Posted on 04/16/2020 9:21:09 AM PDT by The Houston Courant

In the State of the County Address to hundreds of the most influential people in our community, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo uttered the following words, “bail reform does more than just protect the constitutional rights of defendants, it also lowers crime.” Now I am not going to sit here and call the County Judge a liar, but at best, she is grossly uneducated on the consequences of bail reform. At worst, she misled that room full of people and Harris County. Understand that bail reformers, and to a large extent criminal justice reformers, will not admit that they are subjecting our community to a social experiment that it is failing. The hard-working and law-abiding members of our community are suffering under the harsh consequences of bad policy.

The push for bail reform in Harris County, the subsequent entering into a federal consent decree as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement, and the organized push for criminal justice reform created a perfect storm in Houston. On one hand you have individuals getting out on personal recognizance (PR) bond after PR bond with nothing but their signature to guarantee their appearance in court. On the other you have District Attorney Kim Ogg who seems content with letting violent and repeat offenders back into our community with little to no punishment.

Kim Ogg’s abuse of deferred adjudication for violent felons is well documented. Her actions have released over 1600 people on deferred adjudication for aggravated assault, 1100 people for aggravated robbery and robbery, 300 people for sexual assault, and over 300 people for felon in possession of a firearm.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that these ‘reforms’ were going to make Houston less safe. In fact, by every public safety metric bail and criminal justice reform are an unmitigated...

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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; bailreform; catchandrelease; criminaljustice; houston; texas

1 posted on 04/16/2020 9:21:09 AM PDT by The Houston Courant
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To: The Houston Courant

Total Soros operation


2 posted on 04/16/2020 9:25:31 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: headstamp 2

I have long since come to the conclusion that the easiest way to determine if any proposal or legislation is harmful or deleterious to our country, is to first observe who or what proposes it.

If it is a Democrat or Leftist, that is the answer right there. No tedious digging or investigation needed.


3 posted on 04/16/2020 9:44:23 AM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: The Houston Courant

Bail “reform” has been a complete and utter disaster because it’s not bail reform it’s bail elimination.

The unspoken motto of the bail reform crowd was “end it don’t mend it”.

Having said that, the bail system was and is an absolute mess and in fact it really does need mending.


4 posted on 04/16/2020 9:58:30 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: The Houston Courant
Joe Gamaldi is the Houston police Union President that warned people the police were watching, as he worked to cover up the murders by police in the no-knock raid on 28 January, 2019:

I have not heard any more statements from Joe Gamaldi, head of the Houston Police Officers Union, about the raid. Initially, he said this: From abc13.com:

“Enough is enough. If you’re the ones out there spreading the rhetoric that police officers are the enemy, well just know we’ve all got your number now,” Gamaldi said. “We’re going to be keeping track on all of y’all, and we’re going to make sure to hold you accountable every time you stir the pot on our police officers.”

5 posted on 04/16/2020 10:01:51 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: The Houston Courant

Releasing criminals to cause more chaos in the streets. This is just the beginning antifa is waiting in the wings


6 posted on 04/16/2020 1:02:43 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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