The Professional Bondsmen of Texas- Blog

  On this episode of our podcast, we discuss the impact of rising crime on economic development.  In areas across the country we are seeing the impact of bad bail reform policies where business are suffering or closing because of decriminalization policies.  Our guest is Eric Granof who has been a guest in the past.  Eric discusses a recent presentation he gave at annual meeting for PBT on this matter.  Eric is also working on paper on the subject. Eric Granof is the Vice President, Corporate Communications Chief Marketing Officer – Expert Bail Network, AIA Surety. Also available on: Apple Podcasts-            CLICK HERE Spotify-                        CLICK HERE Google Podcasts-        CLICK HERE Podcast Index-            CLICK HERE Amazon Music-          CLICK HERE Stitcher-                      CLICK HERE iHeart-                        CLICK HERE TuneIn + Alexa          CLICK HERE Podcast Addict-          CLICK HERE Podchaser-                  CLICK HERE Pocket Casts-              C

Equal Justice hosted another debate on the National Issue of Bail Reform.  The guests included Steve Mulroy who is the newly elected district attorney for Sheby County, Tennessee.  Mr. Mulroy would be described as a Soros' supported and funded district attorney who seeks to reform the criminal justice system within.   D.A. Mulroy made the argument in his opening statement that he wondered if bail or bondsmen were even needed anymore. To set out the opposing position, PBT's own Ken W. Good appeared and argued that bail was an integral part of the success of the criminal justice system.  Mr. Good argued that the private industry had the lowest failure to appear rate of any release mechanism by far and it allowed cases to get resolved more quickly.  Without the private industry the delays in resolving cases, either intentionally or unintentionally, placed pressure on the system to dismiss more and more cases which was already present before Mulroy took office (68% in 2021 for Shel

  A bail reform group bonding out hundreds of criminal defendants from the Bexar County jail, then paying some of them to do campaign work for candidates, including the district attorney whose office is prosecuting them. Trouble Shooter Jaie Avila obtained a recorded phone call that may show a conflict in the hard-fought race for D.A. On the recording you hear two representatives of a group called Texas Organizing Project, or TOP, talking to a man they think is an inmate they recently bailed out and asking him to do door-to-door canvassing for $20 an hour. Earlier this year we showed you how TOP receives cooperation from Bexar County in bailing out hundreds of inmates from the jail. The bail reform group claims they are low level offenders, but our reports showed they've put repeat offenders with violent histories back on the street. On the recorded phone call, Laquita Garcia, Statewide Policy Coordinator with TOP, and another staffer named Greg Williams, are talking to a man they