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Consider:

"Additionally, under the commercial bail-bond system, the ultimate decision about whether the accused goes free is in the hands of a private business, which makes its decision based on economic concerns, rather than a judge, who considers whether a person is a flight risk or endangers public safety. Commercial bail-bond businesses make more money off granting bond to a higher-bail, higher-risk defendant than a person accused of lesser crimes with lower bail."

The ultimate decision is not in the hands of private business. The ultimate decision is in the hands of the judge who decides whether or not to set bail and how much bail to set to begin with. Nothing prevents a judge from denying bail to a defendant who is an obvious flight risk nor does anything prevent a judge from releasing a defendant on nothing more than the defendant's promise to appear. This same sort of flawed logic permeates the whole piece.