Editorial: LA court’s refreshing candor on money bail: It doesn’t make us safer
It was refreshing to hear Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Samantha P. Jessner’s spirited and factual defense last week of the court’s new post-arrest policy, which eliminates money bail for people accused of nonviolent and other less serious crimes.
That’s especially true in the face of the fear-based misinformation about the program currently being spread across L.A. by politicians and police.
And it’s even more welcome because the Superior Court bench, stocked with many former
