President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate cashless bail nationwide by threatening to revoke federal funding from cities and states that release suspects before trial without requiring cash bail.
The executive order “directs the Attorney General to submit a list of States and local jurisdictions with cashless bail policies” and “instructs the Administration to identify Federal funds currently provided to cashless bail jurisdictions that may be suspended or terminated,” according to a White House fact sheet. The fact sheet points to New York City, California’s Yolo County, and Rockford, Ill., as three locations where cashless bail policies have led to the release of criminals who went on to commit more crimes.
“Cashless bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced,” the fact sheet says.
Trump has long opposed cashless bail policies, promising during his 2024 campaign to “crack down on the left-wing jurisdictions that refuse to prosecute dangerous criminals and set loose violent felons on cashless bail.” Earlier this month, he urged Congress to toughen laws around cashless bail as he took control of Washington, D.C.’s police force in an effort to stamp out the city’s longstanding crime problems. D.C. largely eliminated cash bail in 1992, with 94 percent of defendants released pretrial without posting a cash bond by 2017, according to a study by the Marshall Project. Illinois in 2023 became the first state to abolish cash bail entirely.
A number of high-profile cases have involved criminals who were released without bail and went on to commit heinous crimes while they awaited trial. Just last week, illegal immigrant Lahoine Soto carried out an armed robbery spree in Manhattan and was shot dead by an off-deputy officer. Soto had been released without cash bail, the New York Post reported, even though he was arrested last June while illegally crossing the southern border and again this May on petty larceny charges in Manhattan.
“Every place in the country where you have no-cash bail is a disaster,” Trump told reporters on August 11.
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