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.
“Close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South.”
“Flint is a place a city where many people are unlikely to ever drink another drop of tap water as long as they live.”
“The right-wing Citizens for Liberty and Sandinista Renewal Movement political organizations have led the violent protests.”
“’Land and the hunger for land’ is uniting rural and urban workers.”
Afro-Colombians fear for the lives of two leaders of the Black Communities Process, or PCN, the main organization defending the collective land rights of Afro-descended peoples.
