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.
“Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should be vilified for the rest of their lives for what they did in Libya and Syria.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party were about much more than guns.
“Kagame persecuted and silenced the only two women who dared stand up to him, and he didn’t stop a genocide; he started one.”
“We are family…” Harvey, Ike, Matthew, sisters Sandy, Rita, Katrina Sing four part harmony top of their lungs Watching rivers rise, waist-deep water
The grim tale of America’s “subprime mortgage crisis” delivers one of those stin
