re: This is a very smart move by LA ...

St Benard may actually be the worst I've seen. I posted bond for a couple of kids who got pulled over because the bulb that illuminates the license plate was out. The cop on the scene claimed that justified a search, he told me the same as I was bonding them out on a weed charge two hours later. They shared the same PD and he had zero interest in contesting that bullshite search. I took a special interest in that one because I found out that night that one of them was sixteen and I had let him hire on with his cousin's ID. Kid ended up wirking for me for years, he's a coating inspector now.
I have no idea how to fix it. I have no idea where the money would come from, but I hate the idea that everyone is just willing to pretend that defendants are receiving competent counsel when that is so very far from the truth.