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.
“W.E.B. Du Bois. He really gave us the language; James Baldwin gave us the style.”
“Black revolutionary consciousness is merged with white and bourgeois Urban Nightmare
“The Congolese people in particular and Africans in general need to learn from their brothers and their sisters in the Global South.”
“The reform of mass incarceration, as it has been absorbed by the cultural ensemble of the state and its distensions, endorses an expansion of policing logics.
“In Hoover’s eyes, black-owned bookstores represented a coordinated network of hate-spewing extremists.”
