The four most common ways a defendant can secure pretrial release are release on recognizance (ROR), cash bond, property bond and bail bond through the services of a commercial bail agent. Bail bonds are the most common because few people have the financial means to post property or cash as bail. Therefore, defendants turn to commercial bail agents, who are not “bound by the same constitutional constraints placed on law enforcement officers, who act under governmental authority when they seek, apprehend, detain, and transport bail jumpers” (Neubaeur & Fradella 2014). Furthermore, the broad powers exercised by commercial bail agents have led to the use of force, corruption, arrests of innocent citizens for example. Organizations such as the
