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   From: timmy.walz@lies.alot   
      
   Kamala Harris helped a controversial bail fund rake in millions of dollars,   
   which it spent on getting violent criminals back on the streets in the name of   
   “social justice” — only for some of them to commit more crimes,   
   including murder.   
      
   Among the freed criminals: a twice-convicted male sex offender who went on to   
   allegedly assault other women before his rearrest, and a man who left a victim   
   with a traumatic brain injury after being sprung from jail while awaiting   
   trial for another    
   felony assault.   
      
   Following the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands   
   of police, which sparked riots across the country, the Minnesota Freedom Fund   
   received endorsements and donations from celebrities including Seth Rogan,   
   Justin Timberlake and    
   Cynthia Nixon.   
      
   Harris, then a California senator, also asked her supporters to donate in a   
   June 2020 tweet.   
      
   “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail   
   for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota,” Harris wrote.   
      
   The fund, started in 2016, raked in $41,655,560, according to its 2020 tax   
   filings — a huge windfall compared to previous years when it took in between   
   $100,000 and $230,000 in annual donations, according to public records.   
      
   The injection of capital allowed the group to go from spending $1,000 a day on   
   bail to more than $100,000 to spring offenders, according to a report.   
      
   Crime watchdogs point out how big bail funds can undermine the system itself,   
   and say Harris — herself a former prosecutor and district attorney in   
   California — should know better.   
      
   Hannah E. Meyers, an expert on policing at the Manhattan Institute, told The   
   Post: “The value of the bail system is that it provides leverage, ensuring   
   that someone charged with hurting the community doesn’t do it again before   
   trial.   
      
   “For most people, the idea of losing their own money or the savings of their   
   loved ones is a huge motivator for not reoffending. Bail funds scramble this   
   dynamic, since — humans being what they are — nobody cares as much about   
   losing strangers’    
   money.”   
      
   Meyers also noted bail is set at judges’ discretion, and should be made   
   economically appropriate to the person in front of them. She also pointed out   
   how those who have previously been convicted are much more likely to reoffend.   
      
   “Advocates for extreme bail reform often try to obscure these very different   
   levels of risk between releasing serious, repeat offenders and low-level or   
   first-time offenders.”   
      
   Since 2016, MFF has paid $21.2 million in cash bail and $4.8 million for   
   immigration bonds, freeing 2,537 people from pre-trial detention and 463 from   
   immigration detention, according to statistics on its website.   
      
   A crime watchdog group in Minneapolis that monitors the fund’s bail   
   initiatives and crime in the city called Harris’ actions endorsing the group   
   “irresponsible.”   
      
   “It was ridiculous for Kamala Harris or any government official to promote   
   an organization like Minnesota Freedom Fund, considering she didn’t make the   
   tweet until June 1, well after it was clearly obvious that our city was being   
   burned and looted by    
   protesters,” said the director of the group, who did not want to be   
   identified because of safety concerns.   
      
   “The fact that Harris’ tweet still has not been deleted, nor has she   
   denounced how irresponsible MFF has been in bailing out dangerous offenders,   
   even after all the controversy and proof of harm that MFF has caused to   
   Minnesota, is proof she cares    
   more about criminals than law-abiding citizens.”   
      
   When asked about the filings and the criticism leveled against their   
   initiatives in bailing out sometimes violent criminals, the group told The   
   Post Tuesday it is “a local nonprofit led by a volunteer-based board.   
      
      
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