Bail Reform: Why is it Always About More Money? Why do Bail Reform activists always need more taxpayer dollars for success? If a taxpayer funded pretrial program is struggling, the first reaction is for the programs leadership to say that they didn’t have enough funding.…
New Study Says “Zero Bail” will Save the World If you were to stand and bang your head against a wall over and over again, guess what? It would hurt. Eventually you would stop, right? Because banging your head against a wall doesn’t make any…
Over the years, the bail reform movement has shifted its message from one thing to another. Like throwing spaghetti at the wall, the activists and proponents experiment different talking points and messaging frantically searching for anything that sticks to support their misguided anti-bail ideology. But…
Crime is and always will be something that impacts each and every one of us. No matter what side of the political spectrum that you sit on, we all want to live in a community that is safe and secure. That is why crime is…
Over the past decade we have seen a purposeful and strategic attack on our criminal justice system. This attack has been promulgated and funded by a small group of progressive billionaires, most notably, the founder of Open Societies Foundation, George Soros. The most powerful aspect…
We recently conducted a state of the bail profession survey amongst bail agents to try and better understand agents’ general impression of the industry, as well as the things they felt were the most important things they wanted from their surety. While the results were…
Thank you to everyone who took our 2024 State of Bail Survey and congratulations to the winner of our drawing for $100 Visa Gift Card. To be honest, the results of the survey were a little surprising as they showed that the majority of bail…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF If the Bail Project Hates Cash Bail So Much, Why Do They Utilize it Every Day? Happy New Year everyone! Another year has ended, and we can all look towards 2025 with hope and confidence that the failed experiment,…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF When Prosecutors Go Rogue Over the past several months, I have been doing a ton of research on the progressive prosecutor movement. While I am sure most of you know about this movement, for those of you that don’t,…
BEHIND THE PAPER WITH ERIC GRANOF When the data can’t speak for itself…the activists speak for it Is it just me or does it seem like every other day now there is an article touting the success of bail reform? In the past few of…
