Study: Half of those released from jail before trial in San Francisco were arrested for committing new crimes while free – HotAir

Study: Half of those released from jail before trial in San Francisco were arrested for committing new crimes while free – HotAir: The California Policy Lab at UCLA and UC Berkeley has published a study which found about half of the people released from jail before trial in San Francisco never show up for their court dates. Also, slightly more than half commit another crime while released: Roughly half of people charged with crimes and released from jail before their trials in San Francisco in recent years failed to show up for court, and a similar share were accused of committing a new crime while free, a new study found. More than 1 in 6 defendants allegedly committed a new violent offense, according to the findings from May 2016 to December 2019 published by the California Policy Lab, based at UC Berkeley and UCLA… “Nobody can look at this report and say we’re doing great,” said Supervisor Catherine Stefani, a former prosecutor who has voiced skepticism about previously reported success rates of people released from jail before trial. “It validates the experience that people in San Francisco are feeling when they’re concerned about crime.”