At long last, someone is willing to bring sanity back to our justice system.

On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end “cashless bail,” bringing to an abrupt end the massive federal grants used by states to fund pretrial release bureaucracies nationwide.

For example, the Edward Byrne-JAG grant — named for NYPD Officer Edward Byrne , murdered in 1988 protecting a witness from a drug syndicate — was designed to fight drug crimes.

But in New York and elsewhere, that money has been hijacked to bankroll “catch and release” policies that keep repeat offenders on the street and leave victims behind.

Last year New York City used $103 million in federal funds to run its “supervised release program” — a huge pretrial bureaucracy of administrators, case managers and s

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