re: Advocate- Cash bail problem, not Trudy White

Only reason I noticed this was that it was a front page headline and I went to read the electronic version to see how they would frick this up.

I figured the fish wrap needed more eyeballs seeing exactly what it had become.

Their editorial staff is either non existent or borderline retarded. I'm convinced these early 20s writers just type their work out on their phone then dump it directly to the server where it's immediately posted to the site.

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Their editorial staff is either non existent or borderline retarded. I'm convinced these early 20s writers just type their work out on their phone

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I was in Ivar's a while back and ended up meeting the Online Editor from the Advocate. I said much of what you said here and he disputed the assertion. I brought up the site on my phone and pointed out not two but three glaring grammatical errors in the first story I clicked on. Dude was pissed and left the bar. Not going to lie, I was several drinks in and wasn't very diplomatic about it but it does piss me off.

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The article uses an extremely poor example to make their argument. Franklin's bail was high because of an extensive background of illegal activities, that's the system working as intended. White not only set bail obscenely low for someone of his background when he went before her, but then went back and lowered what someone else had set on subsequent charges.

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The article was terrible primarily because it missed the point.

Cash bail is a stupid method of addressing whether individual liberties should be deprived during the innocent until proven guilty phase. If a defendant is determined to be at risk of not showing up for court or determined to be likely to commit new offenses while on bond, then order him detained WITHOUT bond.