From
@Angelcat13 ’s link in post #618:
“A million dollars minus one dollar bail and we did not get it. We don’t set bail. Judges do. The bail was set at $200,000," Krasner said. "Why? Well probably because the commissioner who set the bail probably imagined that was enough to hold Keon King in custody. It wasn’t. Keon King had access to a lot of money and so he paid $20,000 bail almost immediately and was out of custody as a consequence of that, alright? This is the problem with cash bail."
Krasner claimed that victims are less likely to appear in court if they know that a suspect is not in custody.
"That victim is more likely to walk in the door of the courthouse and testify if that victim knows that the defendant can’t walk out right behind her if he’s locked up," he said. "Well, he wasn’t locked up here."