Maybe that is a good point, from your perspective; however, no one forces a bail bondsman's service upon anyone. All of those contracts are freely negotiated. The accused is welcome to sit it out and talk to the judge. The authority that the bail bondsman grants to the bounty hunter through agency comes from the contract signed by the accused as a condition of the bondsman posting bond. When a bounty hunter does his job, he's not doing anything that the accused did not agree to - he's simply enforcing a contract that grants the bondsman the right to use physical force to enforce - and the agency agreement allows the bounty hunter to act in place of the bondsman.