maroon barchetta said:

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Good news!

Bond was set for both of these road ragers!

Hers is $300k and his is $150k.

Of course if they were different people that had actually killed the guy and his kid, they would have been given a PR bond and told to promise to be good for awhile.

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RiverAg 80 said:

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Maybe in Harris County, but no where else in Texas that I know of.
In most places bondsman get 15% to get someone out. 1%, which is what your post shows, would be an impossible way to make money.

So in all of the place I know, the amount the bad ones would have to pay on those 2 bonds would by 15%, or $45,000 and $22,500. At 10% the bonds would cost $30,000 and $15,000.

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txags92 said:

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RiverAg 80 said:

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Maybe in Harris County, but no where else in Texas that I know of.
In most places bondsman get 15% to get someone out. 1%, which is what your post shows, would be an impossible way to make money.

So in all of the place I know, the amount the bad ones would have to pay on those 2 bonds would by 15%, or $45,000 and $22,500. At 10% the bonds would cost $30,000 and $15,000.

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In Harris County, the courts don't come back to the bonding companies and demand payment for criminals that violate or skip their bonds. There is zero risk for them if a criminal skips town, so 1-2% cash bonds are the norm.

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RiverAg 80 said:

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txags92 said:

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RiverAg 80 said:

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Maybe in Harris County, but no where else in Texas that I know of.
In most places bondsman get 15% to get someone out. 1%, which is what your post shows, would be an impossible way to make money.

So in all of the place I know, the amount the bad ones would have to pay on those 2 bonds would by 15%, or $45,000 and $22,500. At 10% the bonds would cost $30,000 and $15,000.

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In Harris County, the courts don't come back to the bonding companies and demand payment for criminals that violate or skip their bonds. There is zero risk for them if a criminal skips town, so 1-2% cash bonds are the norm.

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That is an unbelievably low amount. But without the risk I guess the bondsmen can still make money.
I am afraid that Harris County my be lost forever. But Republicans are polling well in all judicial raises as of now. Maybe this election cycle will get Harris County turned around. Well, at least until the next election.

I still find the 1% unbelievable. Are you sure of that amount?

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David Happymountain said:

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The Venezuelan road rage shooter with the big ass got me into following the grizzy hood news page but I left it because of the amount of hood rat sh tpost comments.

Based on what people put on Facebook, the Dimtards have successfully weaponized low income blacks into thinking their own kind continues to be oppressed by the white boogie man.

The ship is clearly headed for the iceberg at this point. Get out of Harris county if you can.

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"White flight"...really just upper/middle class flight... is going to be unprecedented in the coming decade. In every major metro. Compounded by WFH and flex schedules pretty much being the standard now. Democrats are actively ruining every major city. Crime and homicides have even sky rocketed and broken records in Austin.

I know the burbs are reachable...but at least now I am mostly surrounded by like minded family people who are heavily armed and don't think men can get pregnant...and not NIMBY limp wristed white liberal maggots with stupid "this household believes in science etc etc" signs. I feel like my block could fend off an armed invasion if it came to that. 3/5 of my old neighbors in town had Biden and/or the aforementioned sign above in their yards...Beto signs before that. One of them was offended by my Cleveland Indians hat, which I bought pretty much for the sole purpose of offending white liberals when they were retiring the mascot .

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Silian Rail said:

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The burbs aren't reachable, even the burbs are lost. The new suburbs are the exurbs. The burbs is now what the heights was 5 years ago, crunchy upwardly mobile yuppies who vote D because of "no human is illegal". That's why my ass is living in no man's land between pinehurst and magnolia wondering when I'm going to have to move to plantersville.

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Silian Rail said:

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The burbs aren't reachable, even the burbs are lost. The new suburbs are the exurbs. The burbs is now what the heights was 5 years ago, crunchy upwardly mobile yuppies who vote D because of "no human is illegal". That's why my ass is living in no man's land between pinehurst and magnolia wondering when I'm going to have to move to plantersville.

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SB 43rd STREET OG said:

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Burbs are pretty damn red.

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maroon barchetta said:

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SB 43rd STREET OG said:

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David Happymountain said:

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The Venezuelan road rage shooter with the big ass got me into following the grizzy hood news page but I left it because of the amount of hood rat sh tpost comments.

Based on what people put on Facebook, the Dimtards have successfully weaponized low income blacks into thinking their own kind continues to be oppressed by the white boogie man.

The ship is clearly headed for the iceberg at this point. Get out of Harris county if you can.

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"White flight"...really just upper/middle class flight... is going to be unprecedented in the coming decade. In every major metro. Compounded by WFH and flex schedules pretty much being the standard now. Democrats are actively ruining every major city. Crime and homicides have even sky rocketed and broken records in Austin.

I know the burbs are reachable...but at least now I am mostly surrounded by like minded family people who are heavily armed and don't think men can get pregnant...and not NIMBY limp wristed white liberal maggots with stupid "this household believes in science etc etc" signs. I feel like my block could fend off an armed invasion if it came to that. 3/5 of my old neighbors in town had Biden and/or the aforementioned sign above in their yards...Beto signs before that. One of them was offended by my Cleveland Indians hat, which I bought pretty much for the sole purpose of offending white liberals when they were retiring the mascot .

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Did you wear the hat while sporting your Blackhawks jersey?

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txags92 said:

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RiverAg 80 said:

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txags92 said:

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RiverAg 80 said:

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Maybe in Harris County, but no where else in Texas that I know of.
In most places bondsman get 15% to get someone out. 1%, which is what your post shows, would be an impossible way to make money.

So in all of the place I know, the amount the bad ones would have to pay on those 2 bonds would by 15%, or $45,000 and $22,500. At 10% the bonds would cost $30,000 and $15,000.

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In Harris County, the courts don't come back to the bonding companies and demand payment for criminals that violate or skip their bonds. There is zero risk for them if a criminal skips town, so 1-2% cash bonds are the norm.

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That is an unbelievably low amount. But without the risk I guess the bondsmen can still make money.
I am afraid that Harris County my be lost forever. But Republicans are polling well in all judicial raises as of now. Maybe this election cycle will get Harris County turned around. Well, at least until the next election.

I still find the 1% unbelievable. Are you sure of that amount?

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Because the bonding companies are private businesses, it is really difficult to get solid #s of what is the "average" being paid. The 1-2% is a number that has been used by a number of folks on both sides of the debate about how to fix the bond system. One side wants to impose a blanket 10% minimum on the bond companies. The other side wants to just start actually collecting the bond values from the companies for criminals that violate their bonds/skip out on them and let the market correct based on the risk. But both agree the average is well below 10% and I think it is safe to say that the 1-2% # isn't being conjured from thin air by the people spouting it in public.

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RiverAg 80 said:

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txags92 said:

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RiverAg 80 said:

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txags92 said:

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RiverAg 80 said:

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Maybe in Harris County, but no where else in Texas that I know of.
In most places bondsman get 15% to get someone out. 1%, which is what your post shows, would be an impossible way to make money.

So in all of the place I know, the amount the bad ones would have to pay on those 2 bonds would by 15%, or $45,000 and $22,500. At 10% the bonds would cost $30,000 and $15,000.

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In Harris County, the courts don't come back to the bonding companies and demand payment for criminals that violate or skip their bonds. There is zero risk for them if a criminal skips town, so 1-2% cash bonds are the norm.

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That is an unbelievably low amount. But without the risk I guess the bondsmen can still make money.
I am afraid that Harris County my be lost forever. But Republicans are polling well in all judicial raises as of now. Maybe this election cycle will get Harris County turned around. Well, at least until the next election.

I still find the 1% unbelievable. Are you sure of that amount?

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Because the bonding companies are private businesses, it is really difficult to get solid #s of what is the "average" being paid. The 1-2% is a number that has been used by a number of folks on both sides of the debate about how to fix the bond system. One side wants to impose a blanket 10% minimum on the bond companies. The other side wants to just start actually collecting the bond values from the companies for criminals that violate their bonds/skip out on them and let the market correct based on the risk. But both agree the average is well below 10% and I think it is safe to say that the 1-2% # isn't being conjured from thin air by the people spouting it in public.

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The simple and practical way to solve this is for the DA's Office to seek forfeiture of the bonds and then the judges would have to do their job and actual forfeit the bonds. Once word gets around that $300,000 bonds are being forfeited, the bondsmen will certainly go up on their fee AND keep better track of their clients.
But following the law seems to be a foreign concept in Harris County.

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aggiedata said:

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We had a Jugging in front of my house yesterday.

We are in Cypress and had a contractor visit. He was followed from a bank for 45 minutes after he took a cash withdrawal. He pulled up and came inside. They quickly smashed he window, open the console and took his $1000 and were gone. They could have easily followed him through our door if they wanted.

Cops call it Jugging. Be alert out there. Feels like bank tellers could text their pals in the parking lot about who has cash. He went to a bank in the Woodlands.

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