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.
âIf the Movement for Black Lives can indirectly lead to an expanded sphere of safety for white women of a certain class status, with no commensurate enhanced protection for black people
âI think the movement needs to organize the 93 percent of the work force that is not organized.â
ââBlack capitalismâ was a crucial part of President Nixonâs âsouthern strategyâ and the rhetoric and administration of his program is still intact.â
âThere can be no âblack internationalismâ without an attack on imperialism and finance capitalism.â
âFor 70 years Israel has been the biggest purveyor of war and chaos in what colonizers termed as the âMiddle East.â
