The damning cost of cashless bail from one California county that tried it: ‘Imminent danger to communities’

Source: New York Post

A first-of-its-kind study on the disastrous impacts of cashless bail in the US has shed alarming light on how the troubling practice not only increases crime but makes ex-cons more likely to reoffend. “The findings were unequivocal,” Yolo County, Calif. , District Attorney Jeff Reisig told The Post on Monday, referring to his office’s damning 2023 report — which was cited by the White House after President Trump signed an executive order pushing cities to ban cashless bail for criminal suspects.