Fox News reached out to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Marshall Project, The Brennan Center for Law and Justice, The Bail Project, Essie Justice Group and the ACLU, seeking comment on whether these bail reform organizations considered Brooks' bail too high or too low. None of them responded to the request for comment.
"The problem with our money bail system is money," Rahman told Fox News in an interview on Wednesday."Money is not a good determinant of whether somebody will be safe when they’re released pre-trial." She argued that a good system of pretrial services"could have prevented the tragedy that happened in Waukesha." Such a system would include"an assessment of what the person’s needs are." In Brooks' case, a judge would have considered"issues around stability, concerns about his mental health, certainly about his ability to manage his anger and violence."
"All of his issues could actually have been addressed," Rahman argued."The fact that there was a victim in this case who was at risk of being harmed or injured again, those are all factors a court should consider when deciding whether to detain somebody."Even under current Wisconsin law, Rahman argued,"the prosecutor could have requested pre-trial detention, and the court could have imposed that, but they chose not to.
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