Yup, I did. In this case, you are correct.

BUT! Unlike you, claiming that it is an effort to "defund the police", I see it differently and thereby is your misinformation... from the extremist far right.

Bail serves as collateral to ensure that the defendant appears in court for their trial.

“In the current system, the amount of money someone has determines whether they can be released – not whether they pose a threat to someone else or are likely to flee prosecution.”

Yes, an Illinois law eliminates cash bail as of January 2023.

However, the law does not mean all detainees are automatically released. Authorities can still detain people who are dangers to public safety, flight risks or repeat offenders.



Perhaps, you can see the reasoning behind this law with the following two cases...

A man charged in a fatal shooting in Wisconsin has been released on $10,000 bail that was initially set at $500,000.

Karvel Freeman, 35, of Madison, was released from the jail in La Crosse County where he's charged with party to first-degree homicide and party to second-degree recklessly endangering safety.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/tennessee/articles/2022-08-16/homicide-defendant-released-on-10-000-bail-in-wisconsin

Then, there is this one... IN TEXAS NO LESS!

About 80 percent are mothers, most single moms like Maranda O’Donnell, whose arrest in Harris County, Texas, led to one of the most significant legal challenges to the bail system. Her story shows how an arrest can push a person teetering on stability over the edge.

O’Donnell was pulled over driving to see her then 4-year-old daughter and didn’t have a valid license. Unable to pay bail, she spent two days in jail.

Earlier this year, an appeals court affirmed that the county’s bail system violated O’Donnell’s and other plaintiffs’ rights to due process and equal protection.

Susanne Pringle, interim executive director of the Texas Fair Defense Project, a nonprofit that’s part of the lawsuit, says those two days likely cost O’Donnell a new waitressing job and jeopardized custody of her child.

“[Bail] is not supposed to be a punishment. It’s not supposed to be used as a way to detain someone pretrial … but when you set bonds that high and for someone who is being arrested for something that is clearly a poverty offense, that’s what it is—it’s a detention order,” Pringle says.

https://msmagazine.com/2020/05/08/held-for-ransom-dismantling-the-unjust-cash-bail-system/

None of this pertains to "defunding the police"