Your comment is at odds with my perception of the system of bail in the U.S. It was quite illuminating. Thanks for the reference to the paper. The system is

Your comment is at odds with my perception of the system of bail in the U.S. It was quite illuminating. Thanks for the reference to the paper. The system is much more nuanced than I thought it was. I guess this is the danger of reducing a complex system to a set of simple black/white statements.