https://www.foxnews.com/us/waukesha-parade-red-flag-pretrial-assessmentBefore Darrell Brooks Jr was given a $1000 bail on his violent felony charge for a
previous car ramming, the court had a pretrial investigator determine what threat he posed to the community:
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The court was aware both of his extensive criminal past – stretching back two decades – and the active risk he presented to the public, the document shows. He also had an active hold from the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office and the documented noted that "Mr. Brooks is diagnosed with a serious and persistent illness which he is not receiving treatment for."
A graph outlining his risk factors labeled him a six for the risk of new criminal activity, the most severe rating available. He received a four for a risk of failure to appear for future court dates.
The investigator also recommended pretrial supervision and a mental health evaluation.
Yet the assistant district attorney and court commissioner on the case set his bail at $1,000 anyway.
(FTA = failure to appear, NCA = new criminal activity).
This is a rather important detail to the case. The liberal DA had pushed a policy of de facto bail for suspects regardless of the risk they posed, and previously commented that it would eventually result in releasing someone who commits a murder- but that would just be an expected cost of the policy. The prosecution in this case was fully aware that this criminal posed the most serious risk to the public possible under their categorization, and was already being held on a violent felony charge, but decided to release him on a low bail anyway. This was not a fluke, it was not some aberrant "inappropriately low" as the DA deflected after the fact, it was an intentional policy decision in effect. This was doubtlessly just one of many felons released under the DA's bail initiative.