Eliminating cash bail won't threaten public safety

Eliminating cash bail won't threaten public safety

Recently, Illinois celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Pretrial Fairness Act. Now, public safety, not money, determines whether someone is in jail while their case is pending. Opponents of the Act, including Connecticut bail bondsmen watching from afar, claimed it would be a public safety disaster. They declared that crime would increase and Illinois would turn into a revolving door for career criminals, full of Gotham-like cities. One y…