Last July, a judge in Chicago signed an order changing the cash-bond system in one of the nation’s busiest judicial districts. The action came after Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx made bond reform a campaign issue in 2016.

St. Louis County’s system of requiring bail for lesser crimes is itself “criminal,” said the Rev. Cassandra Gould of Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

“It is extracting wealth from our communities,” she said.

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