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.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Hillary Clinton, with help from her collaborators in corporate media, is trying to shift the blame for her email crimes to her predecessor, Colin…
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by Danny Haiphong By any rational measure, Barack Obama has been the consummate War President, having “accelerated the growth of the US military state in all regions of the globe.” Obama “mastered…
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner The US political landscape, explains the poet, teems with deadly, dangerous and toxic notions and figures whom we are told to embrace.
by Bryan K. Bullock The purported “risks” that police voluntarily take are transferred to their Black and brown victims, who have no practical protections. Legal settlements do not balance the…
