Do you think court bonds should be removed to make the law more equal to all?

[foxsquirrell]

You know how sometimes people charged with a crime are allowed out on bond. Problem is that what if you don't have enough money to get out on bond? Is that not discriminating against people who do not afford to pay the bond?

If the court thinks that you can be out and free until your case is heard it can let you out. No need to take money from you even if it is temporary.

Yes

No

[BetaBucks]

The idea is to keep people from not showing up to court. If we remove bonds, people will just show up to court less. An alternative could be a sentence enhancement process, where if they miss court, they get 50% added to their sentence. Then, we just have to deal with all the violent psychopaths committing extra crime while they're waiting for court/sentencing.

Really, it's just a balance of placing the rights of the accused criminal above/below the general safety of society. We can go full on supporting of the accused and society can just deal with the extra crime and violence, or we can go full blown no-bail (locked up until trial is done) and have the least possible harm to society. But we have an in-between system. The question is, how to make it more fair without harming too many more innocent lives in the process. The only reasonable solution, in my opinion, is sentence enhancements, like I mentioned.

[foxsquirrell]

Yeah exactly if they dare to betray the thrust the court had in them by granting them temporary liberty until their case is heard then they know that a heavier sentence awaits them. Sentence enhancement like you said.
With regards to you saying that violent psychopaths will have more opportunity to harm society I tell you that in the first place if it is known that the person is a violent psychopath he or she should not be allowed out for any amount of bond period. Secondly the vast majority of people who have a brush with the law do not go out and commit more crimes (at least not violent or serious crimes). Therefore I think we should keep things well in proportion and avoid such generalizations.
I think they like it (the bond system), and they do not want to remove it because it is a source of income. Plain and simple. Which is disgusting because you would expect that they (people of law, people in politics) really do mean to have a law equal to all and a just society, but deep down they collude even if tacitly to rob people.

[Anonymous]

You can make bonds proportional to income, and forbid taking lend money. The trouble is a lot of people commit crimes while having nothing at all they care about for the court to hold as collateral to see to it that they show up for trial.

In that case your collecting money to pay a bounty hunter to go and find the prisoner.

[OtterMan68]

Depends on the crime