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.
Memos from an intel-for-hire outfit reveal that Washington’s top ally in Africa, Rwanda dictator Paul Kagame, runs one of the world’s most prolific assassination squads.
The collapse of imperialism has been restrained by the military state.
So-called “community policing” may actually expand police power, and Canadian racial tolerance is a myth.
The US has been waging hot and cod war against Russia for almost a century -- wars that are always accompanied by massive lying to the American public.
Voices from the 2018 Womens March on the Pentagon; Basic Income: The Material Conditions of Life; and Micole Siegel on violence as the core mission of police.
