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.
“We need a peace movement of a new type,” said Dr Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Dubosian scholar.
Trump national security advisor John Bolton “is simply a militarist,” said Phyllis Bennis, director of the New International Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, in Washing
Democrats Prepare to Pimp Their Own Left For 2018 and 2020.
“The Democratic Party is seeking to ride Russiagate into the far sunsets with its suit against Trump, the Russians and Wikileaks.”
