President Donald J. Trump and the White House are moving to end “cashless bail,” starting in Washington, D.C., arguing the policy fuels violent crime by putting repeat offenders back on the streets. Citing multiple cases from New York, Illinois, and the nation’s capital—including assaults on NYPD officers, a fatal stabbing days after release, suspects with dozens of prior arrests walking free, and fresh offenses committed while awaiting trial—the crackdown targets what it calls a failed, no-cash-bail experiment. The goal: restore accountability, protect victims, and keep dangerous criminals off public transit, schools, and neighborhoods. Supporters say bail reform promotes fairness, but this plan asserts public safety must come first. If enacted, ending cashless bail aims to stop revolving-door justice, deter repeat crimes, and strengthen community safety in cities nationwide.
“Cashless Bail” Is a Government-Backed Crime Spree
President Donald J. Trump’s aggressive crackdown to end the failed experiment known as “cashless bail” aims to get violent criminals off our streets — starting in Washington, D.C., where dangerous predators are being set free to offend again and again.
The Radical Left’s fantasy of so-called “cashless bail” has turned the streets of America’s cities into hunting grounds for repeat criminals who mock our justice system by committing crime after crime without consequence.
- In 2022, a New York City man was released without bail after he smeared his own feces on a random woman waiting for the subway — despite having dozens of prior arrests, including for slugging a bus driver just months earlier and a heinous hate crime that occurred the prior year.
- In 2022, a New York man brutally executed a mother in front of her three children less than 24 hours after he was freed without bail in a violent assault of the same woman. The man had a prior conviction for kidnapping his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint.
- In 2023, two men who beat up a NYPD officer were freed without bail.
- In 2024, two illegal immigrants who jumped and bit two NYPD cops were cut loose without bail.
- In 2024, a suspected Tren de Aragua gang member — freed without bail after an attempted murder in New York — was arrested for drug trafficking and released again, before he was finally arrested and held for the sex trafficking of a minor.
- In 2024, a repeat offender — already arrested six times in one year — was released without bail despite having 47 prior arrests and 28 criminal convictions.
- In 2024, an Illinois murder suspect walked free under the state’s new no-cash-bail system, endangering the community.
- Just this month, a pair of convicted killers caught dealing drugs in broad daylight were released without bail in New York City.
In Washington, D.C., the majority of individuals arrested and awaiting trial are released back onto the streets.
- In 2025, two days after a man was released without bail on charges of assaulting a police officer, he was then charged in a fatal stabbing on a Metro train.
- In 2024, a man charged a day care attack was released without bail, then arrested again for beating two teachers in front of toddlers. The man had numerous prior arrests.
- In 2023, a man who was allowed to roam free while awaiting trial for a D.C. murder was arrested for shooting into two homes in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
- In 2023, a man was arrested for sexually abusing a five-year-old girl — having been arrested for sex crimes and other violent acts in 2018, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
- In 2023, a man was released after being charged with inappropriately touching three women in Northwest Washington, only to be arrested again just two days later for sexually abusing another three women in broad daylight.
- Just this month, a man who hurled a sandwich at a Federal officer was released on his own recognizance despite being charged with a serious crime punishable by up to eight years in Federal prison.
- In 2020, a journalist was injured and sexually abused by a homeless man near Union Station — only for the depraved man to be released back onto the streets before his trial.
The White House
August 25, 2025
Sources: White House , Midtown Tribune