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.
Voters Have Choices Outside the Duopoly Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both “evil” people, but U.S. voters do have choices this election season, said South Carolina activist and author Kevin…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The real story was that the Democrats rigged the primary elections. The manufactured story that has dominated corporate media is that Russia may…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka President Obama’s justice department intervened to bring the full weight of federal law down on those that resisted killer cops in the streets. “The…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two generations of “Black social disintegration, economic retrogression and political confusion” ushered in through the collaboration of the Black…
by Danny Haiphong Liberals and leftists supported candidate Barack Obama largely because they thought he would be good for civil liberties. Instead, Obama introduced “indefinite military detention…
