And because these funds are crowdsourced, there's no incentive for the defendants to show up for their court date. And guess what? Many of them don't Again, According to the network CNN, nearly 42% of roughly 500 defendants bailed out by the Minnesota Freedom Fund later failed to appear at one or more court hearings between 2021 and 2022. Commercial bail companies, by comparison, had a failure to appear rate of only 22%. So it's working in the private sector. And during that same period, there are new numbers that demonstrate that this trend will continue. (03:38–03:53)
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Asserts that nearly 42% of defendants bailed out by the Minnesota Freedom Fund failed to appear in court, according to CNN.
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