There is definitely much more to it. Bails have been going lower and lower over the past 3.5 years - this is proven and true. It starts with the Crook County States Attorney's office. It's a very complicated subject, and a key issue that should be talked about a whole lot more than it is. But, talking about it is not a comfortable subject, and people don't like to be uncomfortable. Know what I'm saying?
Crystal clear.
In San Francisco, they eliminated cash bail this year, I think (might have been at the end of last year). But they didn't do away with bail. Rather than having a cash bail system based on the charged crime, they implemented a more threat-based system. The State tried to eliminate bash bail last year, but, surprise, surprise, the bail bonds industry got it put on the ballot for this year. From the LA Times:
But the law also [color=var(--primaryBodyLinkColor)]spelled disaster for the bail industry[/url] at large. Los Angeles is home to the largest jail system in the country, and California accounts for roughly a quarter of the nation’s multibillion-dollar bail market. (In an interesting aside:
[color=var(--primaryBodyLinkColor)]Only two countries in the world[/color] have a money bail system reliant on commercial bail bondsmen — the United States and the Philippines.)[/font][/size][/color]
The statewide referendum to overturn SB 10A day after Brown signed the bill, a national coalition of bail agency groups launched a referendum drive to overturn it. By January 2019, it had collected more than enough signatures to qualify the measure for the November 2020 ballot.
A key point: the state/county criminal justice systems don't profit in any meaningful way from the cash bond system. But there is an industry that does. That industry has no particular interest in an effective criminal justice system, unlike the government employees (cops, DAs, PDs, judges, etc.) who take oaths to protect the people, including both society at-large and individuals accused of criminal conduct.
More on this: a federal judge had found SF's system unconstitutional, and part of it was modified in a settlement of that lawsuit last year. There's a lot of information here, and plenty of ways to read it to suit your personal bias/opinion, but--again--much more to this story.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Federal-judge-OKs-settlement-abolishing-cash-bail-14414216.php