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 EPA editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends The law is clear: once officials at the federal Environmental Protection Agency were made aware of hazardous material in Flint…
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Haitian people’s furious resistance to yet another fraudulent presidential election has scuttled U.S. plans to replace “Sweet Mickey…
by Danny Haiphong DeRay McKesson, the twitterist whose followers have met twice with Hillary Clinton, appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show to conduct what looked like another of Campaign Zero’s “racial…
by Doug Henwood On an indispensable episode of Doug Henwood's weekly Behind the News on KPFA Radio, Adolph Reed dispels some of the black smoke around reparations and examines the bona fides of Ta…
by Ann Garrison President Gen. Yoweri Museveni, Washington’s dependable hit-man in Africa, has been in office for 30 years. Museveni could rig next month’s elections, as he has previously done.…
