Police Unions VS the Public, Mass Incarceration VS Restorative Justice
A radio interview by Chuck Mertz on This is Hell Radio.
Flint Taylor, co-founder of the Peoples Law Office in Chicago, who has represented the victims of police and political violence for 45 years explains the role of police unions, public defenders, the problems of supposedly progressive candidates who claim more cops will solve problems, and what restorative justice might look like.
Among much else, Flint Taylor is the author of "Blood On Their Hands: The Racist History of Modern Police Unions," and helped author model legislation now before Chicago's City Council that would guarantee reparations to the victims of police torture.
If current conditions continue, the Caribbean as we currently experience it will disappear by the middle of this century.
There is no doubt that concentration camps are in operation on US soil once again.
The memorial would be a stone monument with the names of those tortured by Burge and his officers and the dates they were tortured.
The Sudanese protest movement needs a focused strategy to resist the RSF's growing power.
The huge nonprofit is backed by billionaire school privatizers with a sophisticated agenda.
