Law_Crime

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In this Sept. 20, 2016 photo, Bryan Sweeney answers a question during an interview in Houston. Officials in Texas’ biggest county said they’re working to fix problems with its bail system, which criminal justice reform advocates allege unfairly keeps poor defendants in custody for too long and disproportionately affects minorities. For university student Sweeney, the three days he spent at the Harris County Jail in Houston before he could pay his $10,000 bail for two misdemeanor charges, including for driving with a suspended license, cost him a chance to register for classes and graduate this summer. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Officers watch to a home on Cypress Road after a gunshots where fired in Palm Springs, Calif. on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. Palm Springs police say three officers had been shot but did not give their conditions. (Omar Ornelas/The Desert Sun via AP)

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In this Saturday Oct. 8, 2016 photo released by Kuwait Ministry of Interiors, a damaged garbage truck after it rammed into another truck carrying five U.S. soldiers in Kuwait. An Egyptian driving a garbage truck loaded with explosives and Islamic State papers rammed into a truck carrying five U.S. soldiers in Kuwait on Saturday, injuring only himself in the attack, authorities said. (Kuwait Ministry of Interiors via AP)

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FILE - In this May 18, 2016, file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown gestures during a community event in Sacramento, Calif. Brown dramatically altered California’s criminal sentencing system when he was first governor a generation ago. Now, with Proposition 57, he is asking voters to change it back, to give corrections and parole officials more say in when criminals are released, and strip prosecutors of the power to decide when juveniles should be tried as adults to rein in a legal code he believes has tilted too far in favor of get-tough policies. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2013, file photo, an inmate at the Madera County, Calif., Jail is taken to an inmate housing unit in Madera, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown dramatically altered California’s criminal sentencing system when he was first governor a generation ago. Now, with Proposition 57, he is asking voters to change it back, to give corrections and parole officials more say in when criminals are released, and strip prosecutors of the power to decide when juveniles should be tried as adults to rein in a legal code he believes has tilted too far in favor of get-tough policies. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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Rain from Hurricane Matthew falls on the flooded intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Victory Drive Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Savannah, Ga. (Josh Galemore/Savannah Morning News via AP)

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FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2008, file photo, Eduardo Li, then-president of Costa Rica's National Soccer Federation, is shown in Santa Ana, Costa Rica. The former head of the Costa Rican soccer federation has pleaded guilty in New York to conspiracy and other charges. Eduardo Li admitted in Friday's, Oct. 7, 2016, plea that he took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from sports marketing executives and others. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert, File)

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In this Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 photo, Sarah Thomas swims last mile of her nearly 82-mile swim across Lake Powell along the Arizona-Utah border. It took her 56 hours to complete the crossing. (Ken Classen via The Associated Press)

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In this April 20, 2016 photo, Raymond Haerry is photographed at at West View Nursing & Rehabilitation in West Warwick, R.I. Haerry of the last living crew members on the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died. He was 94. His son says Haerry died Sept. 27, 2016 in Rhode Island. (Steve Szydlowski/Providence Journal via AP)

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks to the media, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in Madison, Wis. Walker says the state Department of Justice found problems with how Wisconsin's voter ID law was being administered during spot checks at Division of Motor Vehicle driver's license stations. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

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In this Aug. 16, 2016 photo, a condemned inmate is led out of his east block cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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An investigator looks over the scene where a helicopter crashed in a field in Lino Lakes, Minn., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two people died when a helicopter erupted in "a large fireball" as it crashed into a field in the Twin Cities suburb, a sheriff's official said Friday. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)

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A cyclist raises his arm next to students camping to ask for peace at the main square in Bogota, Colombia, early Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, just days after Colombian voters narrowly rejected a peace deal he signed with rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

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This undated photo provided by the West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority shows Benjamin Taylor of Cottageville, W.V. Taylor is charged with murder in Oct. 5, 2016 death of a 9-month-old baby who authorities say he also sexually assaulted. (WV Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority via AP)

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Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu reacts during a church service at the St. George's Cathedral as he celebrates his 85th birthday in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2016 file photo Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos delivers a statement to the press after meeting with former President Alvaro Uribe and other opposition leaders at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has won Nobel Peace Prize it was announced on Friday Oct. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

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A woman walks past a display at the China International Chemical Industry Fair in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. Despite periodic crackdowns, people willing to skirt the law are easy to find in China’s vast, freewheeling chemicals industry, made up of an estimated 160,000 companies operating legally and illegally. Vendors said they lie on customs forms, guarantee delivery to countries where carfentanil is banned and volunteered strategic advice on sneaking packages past law enforcement. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, Emelie Eriksson's son Albin plays at the sand pit outside their home in Bergshamra, Sweden. Eriksson was the first woman to have a baby after receiving a womb transplant from her mother, a revolutionary operation that links three generations of their family. (AP Photo/ Niklas Larsson)

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This photo taken June 24, 2016, shows workers using a lift to scale the exterior the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope at the summit of Haleakala. Hawaii's Supreme Court on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, affirmed a permit to build a solar telescope on a Maui mountain. The ruling denies a challenge by a group seeking to protect the sacredness of the summit of Haleakala. The University of Hawaii followed proper procedure for an environmental assessment, the Supreme Court also ruled in a separate ruling. (Matthew Thayer/The News via AP)