Bondsmen:"They know how the system works, and they know how to get these bonds."

ATLANTA -- Police say 30-year-old Gregory Favors shot and killed Trooper Chadwick LeCroy after a brief chase in northwest Atlanta last Thursday.

Now a local bail bondsman has tough questions after Favors was released from jail on a signature bond earlier this month.

A signature bond means Favors didn't have to pay to be released.

Some bondsmen are asking why career criminals seem to get a free ride.

"They know how the system works, and they know how to get these bonds," said a bail bondsman who asked to remain anonymous.

The 50-year-veteran bail bondsman told CBS Atlanta News that he is outraged by the shooting death of LeCroy.

"What a shame that Favors was let out of jail so easily," said the bondsman.

On Dec. 11, Favors was arrested on multiple felony charges.

"This tragedy was bound to happen. It's just a terrible shame that this young 38-year-old father of two was murdered in cold blood for no reason whatsoever," said the bondsman.

Despite the recommendation of Fulton County's pre-trial services not to release Favors, a judge let him go with no bond at all.

Numerous bail bondsmen in other metro counties told CBS Atlanta that if Favors had been arrested in Cobb County, he would not have been released.

Gregory Favors is currently serving on probation for five felony offenses out of the Fulton and Cobb County Judicial Circuits.

He was initially placed in probation for a period of five years on March 16, 2009 in Fulton County for Possession of Cocaine and Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.

On May 12, 2010, Favors was given five years probation in Cobb County for the offense of Forgery in the First Degree.

On July 22, 2010, he was sentenced to 30 years probation for Possession of Cocaine and five years probation for Criminal Damage to Property in the Second Degree in Fulton County.