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.
Controlling Cops at the Polls in Chicago aldermanic election Feb 26; US Names a Puppet President in Venezuela; Danny Haiphong Wonders Where the Bernie Sanders Campaign Is; Black Men Still Dying of
“Black men are still dying of AIDS” in disproportionate numbers for lack of access to life-saving drugs, said Darius Bost, professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah and
Bernie Sanders better hurry up and formally enter the presidential contest, said Danny Haiphong, weekly columnist for Black Agenda Report.
Washington handed over control of billions in Venezuelan assets to handpicked opposition politician Juan Guaido, who last week proclaimed himself president.
Community control of police activists in Chicago are challenging virtually the entire city council in this month’s elections.
