flightrisk | 8 years ago | on: New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
flightrisk's comments
flightrisk | 8 years ago | on: Cryptocurrency Is the Next Frontier in the Quest to Abolish Cash Bail
Bails in most major cities are a scam.
I had a $0 bail for a misdemeanor (first time offense). Then two former federal prosecutors got involved in my case and had the Judge revoke my bail and set it for $75,000.
I spent 5 weeks in LA County jail trying to fight my case until I gave in, brutalized by the conditions and the endless fake court appearances (dry runs). The people that work in that industry are dangerous, deluded and wreak havoc in communities.
I feel so much empathy for the hundreds of thousands of LA inmates who are unfairly subjugated to such a system. It is perpetuating chaos, gangs and fractured lives.
The FBI has video surveillance cameras in all the jails because of police abuse and the former Sheriff is heading to federal prison.
I commend any group trying to fight for reform. LA's problems are directly tied to malicious and excessive policing, bails and boilerplate plea deals.
page 1
Cops can arrest you for any reason, and if you can't make bail, then they place you in jails with convicted violent felons, some on murder trials.
In LA jails, you have to be racist. Depending on your pod and program, you have special requirements.
You often have to fight, especially if you are black or Hispanic. If there's a brawl inside the pod, you have to fight other races or you will be beaten by your own.
I sat in a tiny room for 11 hours with 50 inmates, half of which had face tattoos and were gang members. A room where inmates had been beaten to death and the others just cover up the cameras.
Multiple times I wasn't called to court, they were "dry runs". Mental torture and real risk required just for due process.
These types of systems only create more criminals.
The deputies act like psychopaths, taunting and roughing up inmates. But not as bad since now the FBI has cameras watching them.
The person who interceded in my misdemeanor case and put me in jail was the former head of California Homeland Security.
His lawyer, also a former federal prosecutor, was in every court appearance lobbying the prosecutor. He also represented the Chief of Police, the City Council and the Sheriff.
Their boss is a secretive billionaire whose former lawyer became the new Supreme Court Justice this year after he lobbied He is a very powerful person who hires former federal officials as political mercenaries.
This all happened because they wanted to protect a wealthy sex predator. In 2-weeks, the Homeland official is actually testifying for the sex predator for his civil trial. He is presumably testifying against my credibility.