A study out of a California county found that zero-dollar bail resulted in hundreds of criminals back on the streets committing more crimes, and one Sacramento resident who lost his sister in a brutal murder in 2021 said he wasn’t surprised by the findings. Â Â Â
The study, from the district attorney in California’s Yolo County, showed that 70% of defendants released for free between 2020 and 2021 reoffended and were twice as likely to commit a new crime, compared to those who had to post bail. In addition, suspects were three times as likely to be rearrested for committing a violent crime under zero-bail versus being required to post bond.  Â
“I mean, frankly it shocks the conscience to think that many new crimes were committed by the people released on $0 bail, and all of the new victims,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig told “America Reports” in August. “That’s what I thought about, the new victims who have been created as a result of this policy.”Â
‘OUTRAGEOUS’ 0$ BAIL POLICY TO BLAME FOR STAGGERING RATE OF CRIMES COMMITTED BY PAST OFFENDERS: CALIFORNIA DA
Dan Tibbitts’ sister Mary Kate was murdered in her Sacramento home in 2021. He said she was the victim of a “perfect storm” of dangerous legislation: California’s Prop 57, Prop 47, and zero-dollar bail. Prop 57, passed by voters in 2016, allowed for early release for nonviolent felons. Proposition 47 was a voter-approved initiative on the November 2014 ballot that reduced from felonies to misdemeanors specified low-level drug and property crimes. Sacramento police arrested 57-year-old Troy Davis on suspicion of murder. He was a parolee with a violent history, who was also charged with assault, intent to commit rape and arson for allegedly setting Mary Kate’s home on fire.Â
“My sister is, I’m sad to say, a statistic of all this bad legislation and policy and political agendas,” Tibbitts told Fox News Digital. Â
Davis, Tibbitts said, had been released “well short” of his…
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