Do-Gooders Do Evil Through Bail Fund

Thank liberal do-gooders for Seattle’s first homicide of 2023:

On Wednesday a judge found probable cause to hold Allister Baldwin in jail for the grisly murder of Ivette Wallin, who lived at the Canaday House in South Lake Union.

A bloody knife and drug paraphernalia were found at the scene of what police call a domestic violence incident.

Baldwin, 46, was previously arrested in 2020 in a domestic violence incident involving another woman. The Northwest Community Bail Fund posted cash bail to help him go free until the trial began. Charges were later dropped when the victim refused to testify for the prosecution.

Baldwin might have killed Wallin anyway, but he should tip his cap to the Northwest Community Bail Fund for doing what it could to help.

The Northwest Community Bail Fund is a nonprofit group that helps indigent defendants using donations from the public.

The money likely originates with left-leaning do-gooders of the type who gave so many $millions to Black Lives Matter grifters in the midst of the riots and mayhem of 2020.

Moonbat do-goodery originates in the fanciful never-never land of liberalism, but it has real world consequences:

In May, police said Kylan Houle broke into a Skyway home and shot the father of four who lived there. Months before the alleged murder, the fund put up bail for Houle’s release on two pending felony gun charges.

Last June, Michael Sedejo was charged with stabbing a man to death at City Hall Park. A month before the deadly crime, Sedejo was in jail and charged with assault and robbery until the Northwest Community Bail Fund paid for his release, pending trial.

Other pernicious effects of the do-goodery fall short of getting people killed:

Nearly 52% of the defendants bailed out by the fund since mid-2020 failed to appear for their court dates, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. That compares to 22% of defendants who failed to show up that didn’t get the fund’s help.

Also, among those the bail fund assisted, more than 20% were later charged with a new felony versus 15% of defendants who posted bail without the fund.

But the important thing is for the donors to feel self-righteous about expiating their imaginary privilege. Their donations prove that they are good people, even if their ideology calls upon them to reject morality as bigoted, racist, homophobic, ethnocentric, Christofascist, et cetera.

On a tip from Dennis G.

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