Cash Bail and the Waukesha Driver's Record

• 1:02:58Tim on Khalif Browder: people shouldn't die in Rikers for stealing a backpack, but the Waukesha driver's case is different—he'd tried to murder his wife and run her over.
• 1:03:15A thousand-dollar bail for running over a woman seems financially light, even from a pure cost standpoint.
• 1:03:44Tim draws a distinction: punching someone in the face as a spontaneous fight gets a thousand dollars, but running them over with a car should cost at least three thousand.
• 1:04:44The problem is that people released on low bail do it again—this guy killed people in a Wisconsin Christmas parade five days after running over his ex-wife.
• 1:05:35Tim insists he's not making a political statement, just talking like a human being about bail policy.
• 1:06:08Poor people thrown in debtors prison over parking tickets is absurd, but someone let out immediately on a thousand-dollar bail who then commits mass murder a week later is a genuine problem.
• 1:06:34Not wanting people to break into your house and kill you isn't a political statement—it's basic human concern for family safety.
• 1:07:21Democrats will lose again because treating public safety concerns as political ideology rather than rational is crazy—preserving safety for yourself and those you care about isn't partisan.

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