Fordham Law School Professor John Pfaff spoke to The Washington Post about how the state of Kentucky is re-evaluating how it uses bail.
John Pfaff, a law professor at Fordham University, said that the equations that agencies such as the one in Kentucky use to evaluate defendants are becoming more reliable, as researchers and statisticians examine more data and refine their techniques. “We actually have increasingly good models of who poses a risk and who doesn’t pose a risk,” he said, adding that in jailing those who are unlikely to flee or commit additional crimes, “We’re spending money that we don’t have to spend. We’re disrupting lives that we don’t have to disrupt.”
Read The Washington Post‘s entire article here.