This is perfect. Thank you for writing it. I’m moved to add a few of my thoughts on this matter:

On types of justice work

Justice is a high-energy state, which means that it must be built rather than revealed in a pile of ashes. While tearing down must sometimes proceed building up, this method is more popular than it is efficacious. Compared to nonviolent movements, violent revolution is less likely to succeed and when successful, less likely to yield a free society.

On cash bail

These findings are damning:

We find that being detained increases the probability of conviction by 13 percentage points for felony defendants. Although pretrial detention lowers the probability of rearrest while cases are being adjudicated, this reduction in criminal activity is mostly offset by an increase in recidivism within 2 years after disposition. Higher pretrial detention rates among minority defendants explain 40 percent of the black-white gap in rates of being sentenced to prison and 28 percent of the Hispanic-white gap. (Leslie and Pope, 2017)

Pretrial detention reform is also a wise fiscal decision. While a vastly more important ethical and Constitutional issue, the fiscal sensibility of pretrial detention reform suggests that radical reform may be within reach.