Tony, this was a very informative and interesting article and appears to me to be quite positive... I just had a couple of comments I wanted to make after reading it.
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Grant walked up the steps with a set of handcuffs on his belt, an extension wand billystick, pepper spray and a .40-caliber pistol on his right hip. His uniform was tennis shoes, jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt.
Sounds like a real professional to me.... wonder if they were "New Balance 927's"... the tactical model... that is what I wear!!!! I don't have a "billystick".... at least not one that I can hit someone with................. oh, sorry.... there I go again....
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A bondsman has the right to re-arrest a person he’s bonded out, even if he’s not missed a court date. We can arrest them if they’re not abiding by the contract, if they’ve co-signed it.”
Virginia is the same...
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“No,” he responded. “White people and black people can lie well, but Hispanic and Indian people can’t lie well. I always look at their face while they’re looking at the picture, and I can tell.”
Now...... that might have been just a bit ........... racist, don't ya think.... although maybe true... I can' comment cause I just don't know...
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“I’d make entry by force because I believe (the defendant) may be in there, but the only thing stopping me is the notice only gives the street address and doesn’t list which apartment,” he said. “That could be used against us in court. Now I’ll go back and get an arrest report — something definitive with the correct address — that says where they arrested him.”
This guy was giving very good information IMHO...
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He said he is “not an attorney and doesn’t give legal advice.”
Another good statement.
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Maj. John Gibson with the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office said bonding companies are a “necessity” in the law enforcement and criminal justice system.
Now that is a refreshing comment by LE...
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“No matter what the economy’s like, you have weeks where you have a lot of people in (jail) and you have weeks where you don’t hardly have anyone,” she said. “The economy being as it is, people are still going to jail but they don’t have the money to get out ... Typically, a bondsman tries to collect their money up front, (but) they don’t have it. So we’re doing a lot more bonds on credit. People are making payments.”
I would venture to say that that description is pretty much nationwide... that about sums it up.
