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.
“Economic disparities, police brutality, inequalities et al. go together with capitalism.”
“When they cannot make more money out of us, then they deport us quickly.”
“Solidarity is built less by rhetoric than by “first showing up.”
“The law has been used to perpetuate an injustice in Mr. Clutchette’s case.”
NCOBRA's Kamm Howard on the stsatus and prospects for reparations legislation in the US House of Representatives now that John Conyers, the perennial sponsor of reparations legislation has retired.
