Bail-reform needed given justice system’s realities

Virtually every American has watched enough TV cop dramas to know about the Miranda warning (“You have the right to remain silent …”) to understand that defendants are presumed innocent until proven otherwise, and to know that our founding fathers believed it better to let 100 guilty people go free than to imprison one innocent person.
Yet the criminal justice system doesn’t always work that way. Too often, I hear from people — and even people who serve on juries &