The Bail Reform Crisis marks a political turning point where ideology overrules consequence and law abandons order. Peter Vazquez challenges a system that recycles offenders, silences victims, and calls chaos compassion. Joined by Ken W. Good, attorney and national bail-policy expert, the discussion exposes how policy choices reshape streets, courts, and culture when leaders refuse to enforce the law.
Justice was never meant to be a revolving door. In New York, it has become one by design. Accountability has been stripped from the system and replaced with slogans that promise compassion while delivering danger. Peter Vazquez confronts that reality head-on alongside Ken W. Good, attorney and national bail-policy expert, whose work exposes what these policies do once theory meets the street.
This is a reckoning with bail reform, repeat-release justice, and a system that treats risk as irrelevant. Judges are forbidden from weighing dangerousness. Chronic offenders are recycled until communities learn their names by memory. Victims are erased from the narrative while officials insist the numbers say everything is fine.
The conversation cuts through the mythology of “simple release,” algorithmic justice, and activist pseudoscience. When consequences vanish, youth crime accelerates. Gangs recruit with confidence. Court backlogs swell, cases collapse, and lawlessness learns it will be tolerated. This is not reform. It is abandonment.
The warning is unmistakable. When government refuses to enforce order, disorder fills the vacuum. History does not argue this point. It records it.
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Ken W. Good
Ken W. Good, a noted bail attorney and a board member of the Professional Bondsmen of Texas
About Ken W. Good - Board of Directors, Professional Bondsmen of Texas:
Ken W. Good graduated from Hardin Simmons University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He received a Master of Education Degree in 1986 from Tarleton State University, a part of the Texas A&M System. In 1989, he received his law degree from Texas Tech School of Law, where he was a member of the Texas Tech Law Review. Mr. Good has argued cases before the Supreme Court of Texas and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, along with numerous courts of appeals, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is the author of "Good’s on Bail," a practice guide created for bail industry professionals. In addition, he has written numerous articles on the subject of bail reform, including, “What Successful Bail Reform Looks Like.” Mr. Good is married and has two daughters. (http://www.pbtx.com)
