The Cashless Bail Lie
It doesn't help the community, it brings pain and suffering
Of the many wrong-headed progressive ideas in the last 30 years — like climate change, gender fluidity, etc. — the one we should have seen coming was the idea that ending cash bail in the name of “criminal justice reform” would result in a better society. This is the lie we were told.
Truth is, ending cash bail did not make communities safer. It made them more dangerous. Here are the numbers that prove it.
New York City ended cash bail in 2019. At that time, roughly 6,000 people were held in jail. The jail population dwindled to about 4,000 people at any given time.
Then, crime exploded — robberies shot up 8.8%, grand larcenies up 9.4%, felony assaults up 50%, and auto theft up a whopping 171%.
You don’t need a degree in criminal justice to know why. Ending cash bail lets more (alleged) criminals back out on the streets to commit more (alleged) crimes before they can be brought to justice for their first (alleged) crime.
So, in 2025, the criminal justice system in New York City began finding ways to hold repeat offenders in jail longer, bringing the jail population back to 6,000. Last week, the new year-over-year crime stats were released — crime fell by 9.5%.
It doesn't get any clearer than that. Cashless bail hurts the community.
Postscript: If you’d like to explore further, Jim Quinn, in a NYPost op-ed lays it out well.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us this morning on May 6, 2026. We’re writing today from Ogden, Utah. We’ve been to Utah many times, and each time we return, we are awestruck by the natural beauty of this state.
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