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This piece thoroughly examines the extreme racial disparities in pretrial detention and 58A requests.

But there's a math error in this video: boston25news.com/news/lawmakers…

By these numbers, the percent of district court cases in Suffolk with a dangerousness hearing is 2.2%, not .02%. Screenshot from Boston25 in...
That said, a bigger problem: the figure has a misleading denominator.

80% of MA cases involve a lead misdemeanor charge. The *vast* majority of misdemeanors are *statutorily ineligible* for these hearings.

The denominator should be cases with *eligible* offenses, not all cases.
Getting those numbers right matters because it allows for a more precise investigation into @DAKevinHayden's claim that his office uses these hearings judiciously.

They routinely file them on possession offenses without any individualized assessment of the particular defendant.
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