Cash bail has problems, as you point out, but it seems like “never cash bail” seems like a poor absolute. No cash bail makes sense for first offenses, but if s

Cash bail has problems, as you point out, but it seems like “never cash bail” seems like a poor absolute. No cash bail makes sense for first offenses, but if someone has a second, third, or 10th arrest while still awaiting trial bail should keep going up. There’s a difference between someone being wrongly arrested for shoplifting and losing their job and custody of kids because they didn’t have $500 and someone being arrested 5 times in a week for the same crime.