[Redstate]

How many of you work in a "catch and release" jurisdiction? Are you sick and tired of arresting frequent fliers or violent criminals only for them to be granted pre-trial release by some bleeding heart judge? I know I am sick and tired of it.

 

[CAcop]

The way I look at it most of our arrestees are from out of the area. My plan is to tag them like invasive species as soon as them come in. Document they are out of the area with DL showing on tickets and booking paperwork. Then when the local social services gives the local ID tag that too. Then when they stab someone in the neck in 6 months we have proof they we not locals.

 

[Sit means Sit]

Checking in...our courts practice what should be better left for trout streams during certain months.

 

[x_out86]

I've become particularly jaded lately when I have made numerous felony arrests in the last week. Two of them were felony battery charges. Not one of them was given a bond higher than $500 cash.

Maybe I'm off base here, but I would argue that any felony cost you at least $1k to get out of jail. If you can't afford the cash, maybe you shouldn't commit a felony?

 

[railfancwb]

I've become particularly jaded lately when I have made numerous felony arrests in the last week. Two of them were felony battery charges. Not one of them was given a bond higher than $500 cash.

Maybe I'm off base here, but I would argue that any felony cost you at least $1k to get out of jail. If you can't afford the cash, maybe you shouldn't commit a felony?

Far be it for me to accuse anyone of anything, but setting bail so high it can't be met means the bail bondsman has nothing to share with friends.


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[x_out86]

Far be it for me to accuse anyone of anything, but setting bail so high it can't be met means the bail bondsman has nothing to share with friends.


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Not of concern here, since Wisconsin does not do bondsman. You better have good friends if you don't have the cash.

 

[golls17]

:mememe:

 

[Agent6-3/8]

Yup, 90% of everything I do is complete BS. Of the remaining 10% the courts screw up half of that...

I once saw a judge give a fugitive from out of state a PR bond...


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[Schaffer]

Our jail burned down...take a guess what that means...

 

[ranger1968]

How many of you work in a "catch and release" jurisdiction? Are you sick and tired of arresting frequent fliers or violent criminals only for them to be granted pre-trial release by some bleeding heart judge? I know I am sick and tired of it.

By "pre-trial release" , do you mean bail/surety, or are you talking about some type of plea/probation deal?

 

[ranger1968]

Not of concern here, since Wisconsin does not do bondsman. You better have good friends if you don't have the cash.

Really? there are no bail bond businesses in Wisconsin?

Damn, I could only wish for that here in FL....

 

[x_out86]

Really? there are no bail bond businesses in Wisconsin?

Damn, I could only wish for that here in FL....

Nope. Commercial bail bonding is not allowed in Wisconsin. No bondsman, no bounty hunters.

We also have no exception to law for bounty hunters. They cannot make arrests in my state. If they want somebody that has absconded to Wisconsin, they find them, watch them and call us to make an arrest IF there is a valid warrant. If not, too bad, so sad.

 

[Redstate]

Ranger1968, in this jurisdiction pre-trial release, unless they can make bond, is that they are released from jail with orders to report to pre trial, and they basically have to check in with pre-trial (run by misdemeanor probation officers or techs), some by only by phone and some, when they need to give a piss sample, in person.

Some judges appear to live in an ivory tower and are clueless as to what goes on in the streets.

 

[AZ Husker]

Just pretend that you are sports-fishing and getting paid to do it.

 

[Redstate]

That's a good perspective, AZ Husker.

 

[Sgt127]

Job security. It is what it is.

 

[Sit means Sit]

Really? there are no bail bond businesses in Wisconsin?

Damn, I could only wish for that here in FL....

Same thing in Kentucky.

 

[Ero-Sennin]

I pretty much gave up on the 'results' end of things when I arrested the same party for the dozenth (12th) time. Between plea deals, continuances, and bond reductions, he was able to bond yet AGAIN, on multiple felony counts.

When the judge, DA and defense finally put together all the myriad cases against him, which should earn him a maybe not life, but I'mma be retired before your dumb ass sees daylight sentence, he'll probably end up with 5 in the pen and parole. In the meantime, he's out again. I have no doubt we'll catch him AGAIN, the only question is how many houses and how many people get their property stolen in the mean time.

It's awful to say, but I have concluded my job ends when the jail cell door closes. I will always build toward beyond a reasonable doubt in every case I work... But so many cases have been flushed for an easy plea, I take no responsibility for what happens post-arrest. I put him where he belongs. Other powers let him out(again, again, again...again...again.)