Jessie, I really enjoyed reading your post as I see most of this first hand while working as a police officer and I am very interested in the subject. They key points that I agree on are that is a disproportionate amount of minorities incarcerated and a larger number of minorities stay locked up before adjudication. If other jurisdictions do things similar to Knoxville, I don’t understand why it happens. When I arrest someone, I upload the arrest report then report to the commissioner to sign the warrant, with the bond already set by the commissioner. Unless he or she does some research, the race or ethnicity of the offender is not known when the bond is set, and the bond must follow certain guidelines. Unless most minorities could
