Bail-reform deal is worse than doing nothing

SACRAMENTO — Leave it up to the California Legislature to take a bad government-run system, argue about it for months, then cobble together a compromise bill that would make things worse. That’s exactly what has happened with the hot-button topic of bail reform, as the full Assembly narrowly passed Senate Bill 10 on Tuesday. It was subsequently approved by the full Senate and now sits on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has previously backed the concept.
The concept is indeed a good