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.
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford It is a given that the U.S. national security state is engaged in surveillance, infiltration and disruption of the emerging Black Lives…
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by Shea Howell The corporate privatizers played the anti-Black race card to justify shutting off water to tens of thousands of poor Detroiters. But they can't play that game in Flint, Michigan, where…
by Drew Franklin Twitterist and Campaign Zero honcho DeRay McKesson’s mayoral campaign platform for the Baltimore public schools “seems modeled in part on corporate education reforms under big-…
A Bonnie Faulkner interview with Michael Hudson When it comes to political economy, Dr. Michael Hudson is one of the most influential voices on the U.S. left. He warns that U.S. strategists have…
