Rapper 50 Cent: Los Angeles Is 'Finished', Slams City For Reinstating No-Cash Bail - 'Watch How Bad It Gets'

Curtis James Jackson III, a prominent rapper, actor, and producer under the stage name 50 Cent, publicly expressed his displeasure with the fallout of Los Angeles' zero-bail policy and took to his Instagram reels on Thursday.

Jackson reposted a video from Fox 11 describing a ruling by Judge Lawrence Riff with the caption: "LA is finished watch how bad it gets out there. SMH." Riff ruled in favor of six plaintiffs who claimed that they were unconstitutionally harmed by the requirement of cash bail. They testified that because they couldn't afford bail, they missed work and this caused suffering and hardship for their families.

The lawsuit read in part, "Being jailed for even short periods of time may cause them to lose their jobs, their housing, or custody of their children. They suffer all the harms of confinement in a jail cell even though a large portion of them will never be formally charged with any crime, let alone convicted." Of course, the suit never suggested not committing a crime as an option to prevent incarceration.

 

 

 

 

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''The biggest impact actually is not going to be on the sheriff's department, LAPD. It's going to be on the other 45 municipalities that have their own police departments, because now they carry the burden of having to deliver their own inmates to court until the arraignment before they can go into the custody of the sheriff. That's going to be the biggest impact," he said, as reported by The Daily Mail.

In an official statement, the Sheriff's Department said, "The Department is aware of the preliminary injunction regarding the cash bail system, and of course will comply with any court-ordered bail schedule. The County is also working with the court and other stakeholders to explore ways to reduce the number of people held before arraignment because they can’t afford bail and to provide the Sheriff greater release options to safely reduce the jail population, while always prioritizing public safety."

Mike Miller, writing for our colleagues at Red State called the last sentence of the statement, "oxymoronic as hell."

Judge Riff claimed that the plaintiffs showed a "vast amount of evidence" of the damage caused by the cash-bail system and demonstrated to him that the practice had little impact on overall crime. He wrote, "The plaintiffs have produced a vast amount of evidence, via four well-qualified expert witnesses and more than a dozen academic studies, that decisively shows the answer to these questions is 'no.'”

He further added, "Their evidence has demonstrated that it is highly likely that the opposite is true: secured money bail regimes are associated with increased crime and increased FTAs as compared with unsecured bail or release on non-financial conditions."

Conversely, as reported by Fox News, Yolo County District Attorney's Office produced findings showing zero bail policies have "horrific" effects on public safety.

"I mean, we have more people being shot at, stabbed, assaulted, robbed, beaten. These are real victims – and the numbers are staggering under zero bail," District Attorney Jeff Reisig told Fox.

In the study in question, Yolo County found that suspects released on zero-cash bail reoffended 70% more often than those under bail, were rearrested on 163% more charges, and were accused of three times the violent offenses.

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