Trump To Target Cashless Bail In New Executive Order

President Donald Trump will reportedly sign an executive order on Monday ending cashless bail.

According to the New York Post, the Trump administration will threaten to remove federal funding for jurisdictions that do not comply.

“Cashless bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced,” a White House memo states.

President Trump spoke out about cashless bail last month in a Truth Social post, writing: “Crime in American Cities started to significantly rise when they went to CASHLESS BAIL. The WORST criminals are flooding our streets and endangering even our great law enforcement officers. It is a complete disaster, and must be ended, IMMEDIATELY!”

On August 11, he stated, ”By the way, every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster. … I mean, bad politicians started it, bad leadership started it but that was the one thing that was central – no cash bail,” the president said.

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“Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to eliminate its policy of allowing defendants to pay money to leave jail while awaiting trial when it passed a provision in its SAFE-T Act in 2021. The new policy then took effect in Sept. 2023,” NY1 noted.

“The White House has pointed to a law enforcement study conducted in Yolo County, Calif., two years ago that determined a ‘zero bail’ policy spiked crime by 163% in that jurisdiction,” the Post pointed out.

The Yolo County website noted in its 2023 study:

Recidivism during an 18-month period was examined for a random sample of 100 arrested individuals who were released from jail on bail in 2018 or 2019, compared to a random sample of 100 arrested individuals who were released from jail on Zero Bail between April 19, 2020, and May 31, 2021. … Individuals released on Zero Bail were subsequently rearrested for a total of 163% more crimes than individuals released on bail. Arrested individuals released on Zero Bail reoffended at an average rate that was 70% higher than arrestees who posted bail. The average recidivism rate for those released on Zero Bail was 78% over 18 months, while the average recidivism rate for those released on bail was only 46%. Individuals released on Zero Bail committed new felonies 90% more often than those who posted bail.