"There is no such thing as bail. It's the purge," she says. "The real crime and the consensual crime committed is that the cops didn't manage to arrest the guy before he murdered someone." The reality of how many people are in pretrial detention doesn't bear this out, Nussbaum adds.
Five days before the midterm elections, the long-running NBC staple removed all subtlety and character work and explicitly lobbied against bail reform in a ham-fisted, boring slog of an episode. With guest Juwan J. Holmes.