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.
“Huey used the framework of dialectical materialism, which gave him the understanding that all development is a struggle between contradictions.”
“Anticommunism provided a global language that could be used to silence anti-racist organizing.”
“Few on the broader US left can name more than a handful of African revolutionaries.”
”The women, peace and security agenda, if implemented and financially resourced, can be the pathway to peace in my country and around the world.”
“Fleets of white Toyota trucks arrived in the desert to carry refugees and drugs to Europe and to bring weapons into central and western Africa.”
