BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF Last week, California’s Judicial Council agreed to pay $70 million for the world’s largest Magic 8 Ball. We aren’t sure of the actual dimensions of the giant 1970’s popular prognosticating pool ball, but we are told it is going…
Last month a survey was conducted by a media outlet out of Illinois asking consumers if they thought that cash bail should be eliminated. Surprising to some but not to us, consumers voted almost 2 to 1 against the idea of eliminating cash bail for…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF This past week I attended the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors bail reform committee meeting in downtown Los Angeles. The meeting was designed to provide an update on LA County’s bail reform efforts and allow the public to…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF I know that it has been a while since my last blog post, but to be honest, I have been struggling with what to write about. This whole bail reform movement has got me so confused and frustrated that…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF As many of you know by now, Governor Brown and the California Legislature sold out public safety and turned their backs on crime victims last month with the passing and signing of Senate Bill 10 back in August. This…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF August 20, 2018 will in my memory be forever known as the most dangerous day in America. And the amazing thing about that is that 99.9% of people in this country have no idea why. On this day, in…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF If you have been following the bail reform movement, you know its proponents hate “money bail” more than anything. They call it unfair. They call it ineffective. They call it socially and economically unjust. They call it racist. That…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF Over the past few months, I have learned an important lesson about the bail reform movement. Its organizers are so focused on eliminating the bail industry that they are willing to do anything…even if it means putting the public…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF It is a Wednesday morning and I just finished reading another report, this time from Los Angeles County, providing bail reform recommendations to the LA County Supervisors. As usual, the report was full of the typical bail reform talking…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF I was speaking with a good friend last week on the phone and, as usual, our conversation turned to bail reform. It is sad that happens, but when you are in my line of work, inevitably all conversations seem…
