“Cashless Bail” Is a Government-Backed Crime Spree

President Donald J. Trump’s aggressive crackdown to end the failed experiment known as “cashless bail” aims to get violent criminals off our streets — starting in Washington, D.C., where dangerous predators are being set free to offend again and again.

The Radical Left’s fantasy of so-called “cashless bail” has turned the streets of America’s cities into hunting grounds for repeat criminals who mock our justice system by committing crime after crime without consequence.

• In 2022, a New York City man was released without bail after he smeared his own feces on a random woman waiting for the subway — despite having dozens of prior arrests, including for slugging a bus driver just months earlier and a heinous hate crime that occurred the prior year.
• In 2022, a New York man brutally executed a mother in front of her three children less than 24 hours after he was freed without bail in a violent assault of the same woman. The man had a prior conviction for kidnapping his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint.
• In 2023, two men who beat up a NYPD officer were freed without bail. 
• In 2024, two illegal immigrants who jumped and bit two NYPD cops were cut loose without bail. 
• In 2024, a suspected Tren de Aragua gang member — freed without bail after an attempted murder in New York — was arrested for drug trafficking and released again, before he was finally arrested and held for the sex trafficking of a minor.  
• In 2024, a repeat offender — already arrested six times in one year — was released without bail despite having 47 prior arrests and 28 criminal convictions.
• In 2024, an Illinois murder suspect walked free under the state’s new no-cash-bail system, endangering the community. 
• Just this month, a pair of convicted killers caught dealing drugs in broad daylight were released without bail in New York City.

In Washington, D.C., the majority of individuals arrested and awaiting trial are released back onto the streets.

• In 2025, two days after a man was released without bail on charges of assaulting a police officer, he was then charged in a fatal stabbing  on a Metro train.
• In 2024, a man charged a day care attack was released without bail, then arrested again for beating two teachers in front of toddlers. The man had numerous prior arrests.
• In 2023, a man who was allowed to roam free while awaiting trial for a D.C. murder was arrested for shooting into two homes in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
• In 2023, a man was arrested for sexually abusing a five-year-old girl — having been arrested for sex crimes and other violent acts in 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
• In 2023, a man was released after being charged with inappropriately touching three women in Northwest Washington, only to be arrested again just two days later for sexually abusing another three women in broad daylight.
• Just this month, a man who hurled a sandwich at a Federal officer was released on his own recognizance despite being charged with a serious crime punishable by up to eight years in Federal prison.
• In 2020, a journalist was injured and sexually abused by a homeless man near Union Station — only for the depraved man to be released back onto the streets before his trial.