Nearly 1 in 12 defendants on ankle monitors in Chicago have gone AWOL, authorities say – FOX News

"When monetary bail existed, we had people who posted monetary bail who went out and committed atrocious offenses. It happened. It happened frequently. We no longer have monetary bail. We have other factors. Those things are still happening, right? That is the nature of a system that is designed with the presumption of innocence," Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach said.
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Brian Jones
8 hours ago

If the same batch of winners had escaped jail, there’d be alarms going off everywhere.

This is both pathetic and tragic.

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