> Its better that a few innocent people sit around for a few days than one guilty person getting out and killing someone. Considering the comparatively tiny nu

> Its better that a few innocent people sit around for a few days than one guilty person getting out and killing someone. Considering the comparatively tiny number of murders committed in such a way that an individual determination of the denial of any bail cannot be made, relative to the massive impact of just leaving “a few innocent people” in jail for “a few days”, I disagree. For the people most likely to not be bailed out almost immediately—as in, people who have the fewest resources—sitting in jail for a few days can be (and usually is, hence the point of this article) absolutely catastrophic. Life-ruining, all out of the fear that one person might slip through the cracks. That’s unacceptable. We can do better.