{"id":178157,"date":"2019-02-20T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/20\/common-sense-law-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:04:00","slug":"common-sense-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/20\/common-sense-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/0P1Bjjz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/0P1Bjjz.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Historical Court Appearance Rates<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Reformer District Attorney Larry Krasner has made it his mission to make law enforcement fairer, and one of his signature policies has been the elimination of cash bail.<\/p>\n<p>Now the numbers are in, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philly.com\/news\/philly-district-attorney-larry-krasner-money-bail-criminal-justice-reform-incarceration-20190219.html\">and they validate his approach<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">One year ago, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced that his office would no longer seek money bail for a list of offenses that make up 61 percent of all cases in the Philadelphia criminal justice system.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Tuesday, Krasner, along with Mayor Jim Kenney, City Council members and the Defender Association of Philadelphia, held a news conference to outline the impact of the reform.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWhat we had a year ago was not fair. We do not, we should not, imprison people for poverty,\u201d Krasner said. By the district attorney\u2019s count, 1,750 additional defendants were released without bail during 2018, with no increase in recidivism.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Krasner added that he believes the policy is making Philadelphia safer in the long term: \u201cWhen you don\u2019t tear apart people\u2019s lives, and when you keep them in contact with the things that keep them on course, they are less likely to commit crimes in the future.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The district attorney\u2019s claims are in part backed up by a<a href=\"https:\/\/poseidon01.ssrn.com\/delivery.php?ID=678082123029024093085109102088072072038085068087057087092126124025099090018123126108004058037124017005016069122002076092065012001043044046028086067001120096021001070055093077089122124124084008012106113000106065000070083082028023089004079126064124074067&amp;EXT=pdf\"> study published this week<\/a>  that found the policy shift resulted in a 22 percent decline in the  number of defendants who spent at least one night in jail. However,  there was no impact on longer jail stays.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe find no effect on failure to appear [in court], on violent offending, or on recidivism,\u201d [Penn State criminologist Aurelie] Ouss [one of the study&#8217;s authors] said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to the First Judicial District, Philadelphia defendants\u2019 court-appearance rate in 2018 was the highest it has been in a decade, nearly 97 percent in Common Pleas Court and 87.5 percent in Municipal Court.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tough on crime policing is dumb on crime policing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical Court Appearance Rates Reformer District Attorney Larry Krasner has made it his mission to make law enforcement fairer, and one of his signature policies has been the elimination of cash bail. Now the numbers are in, and they validate his approach: One year ago, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced that his office would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[435,407,504,437],"class_list":["post-178157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes","tag-justice","tag-philosophy","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}