Is Texas Billionaire, John Arnold, The New George Soros?
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show free beacon piece on John Arnold Houston's own |
| 0:04.7 | Meet the Texas billionaire quietly becoming the new George Soros Andrew Carey writes a Texas billionaire is on track to replace George Soros as the largest donor in the fight |
| 0:17.6 | to remake America's criminal justice system. |
| 0:21.2 | Former Enron Executive John Arnold has poured more than 46 million dollars into criminal justice efforts since 2019, |
| 0:29.0 | exceeding the 40 million that Soros has spent over the past decade to elect liberal prosecutors |
| 0:34.4 | across the country. Arnold's efforts are largely focused on his public safety |
| 0:39.5 | assessment program. A free algorithm that recommends whether judges should grant bail. |
| 0:46.1 | Arnold tap Democrat staffers and Obama administration officials to lead the program, |
| 0:50.8 | which has a history of recommending bail for repeat offenders. |
| 0:55.0 | Arnold's bail tool uses an algorithm to predict the likelihood that a defendant will commit crimes |
| 1:01.0 | while out on bail from jail and whether the defendant will show up to court if |
| 1:05.2 | released. If the suspect scores low enough, spoiler alert, the suspect always scores low enough. |
| 1:13.8 | If the suspect scores low enough, |
| 1:16.2 | the tool will recommend that the judge grant bail. |
| 1:19.1 | But the tool has a poor track record. |
| 1:21.6 | In 2017, a New Jersey, a New Jersey judge freed a man |
| 1:28.2 | Jules Black who was facing a felony gun charge based on a favorable score from Arnold's Public Safety Assessment |
| 1:34.9 | Tool. A week later, Black was arrested for the murder of Christian Rogers, who he's shot |
| 1:40.6 | 22 times. |
| 1:42.6 | In 2022, Arnold Stool recommended that a New Mexico judge released Mohammed Syed who was facing |
| 1:48.7 | two first-degree murder charges, though Syed was accused of lying in wait to hunt his victims with a scoped AK-47, |
| 1:57.0 | the tool assessed Saeed's risk of committing additional criminal activity on a score of 2 out of 6, |
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