Funny thought, but unlikely. We could just skip the rich guy and just get rid of cash bail entirely. There isn’t likely to be much in the way of chaos.
Some rich person could cause a lot of chaos by bailing everyone out of jail that they can
Submitted 1 day ago by FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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treadful@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
MCGiorgi@piefed.ca 22 hours ago
Or become president and pardon them all. Wait. Didn’t that already happen?
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Can’t pardon state charges…
(I mean unless they send in the military to jail-break people? 🤔)
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Bingo!
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 23 hours ago
What if it sorta-kinda already happened, with the people in question furthermore being employed in federal immigration services?
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 21 hours ago
You mean ‘The Crazy Don’ & his Administration bailing-out his ‘Mob Enforcers’?
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’d love to see someone do the math, I’d bet one dude could bail out every eligible person in the US. Probably wouldn’t even have to be Musk/Bezos/Gates.
klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 21 hours ago
It’d cost about $36 billion, assuming roughly 665,000 people are on bail nationwide in the US, and the average Pennsylvania (couldn’t find anywhere else) bail amount of $55,400. There are ~902 billionaires in the US according to Forbes, though some of them are likely under $36 billion.
GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 21 hours ago
That would be awesome, for them arrested & their families, but the rest of The Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners would be mad as BLANK!
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
FYI: Bail is not a get out of jail free card
Its just setting down a sort of “security deposit” and promising to go to the court date, and they’ll take your money if you don’t show up to court and also issue a warrant for your arrest. You still have to face a trial.
If you are considered “dangerous”, they could deny letting you go on bail.
So not really a whole lot of “chaos”. It’s actually a good thing to let people go if they a haven’t been convicted of a crime yet. Cuz keeping innocent people (cuz that’s what they are before a conviction) in custody is injustice.
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
There are also laws about who can post bail for you. My understanding is that they need to either have an actual relationship with you or be a licensed bondsman. Either be someone who can guilt you into going to court or who will hire a bounty hunter to haul you in.
(And bail bonds are unfair bullshit, but that’s a different thing.)
jeffw@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I don’t think this is a thing. The court could reject you if you’re suspicious, but I don’t think there are laws saying “you need a blood relationship to post bail for someone”