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 New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christy âmust have reasoned that nobody important would stand in the way of whatever he wanted to do toâŚ
by Frank X Murphy The whole world knows that Flint River water stinks and is full of lead. But, it is âthe smell of Gov. Rick Snyderâs unprecedented, radically anti-democratic and cunningly racist ââŚ
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner I. The scent of sulfur, scandalous Skippy-Gate brewâ With an arresting officer; some shit ainât neurosurgery or rocket scienceâainât as nuanced, orâŚ
by Danny Haiphong When capitalism is sinking, the working class is drowning, and flails about for a life raft â like Power Ball. âWorkers, especially the increasing numbers thrown out of the laborâŚ
by Kali Akuno The current upsurge in Black âmovementâ-type politics has been in the making for a decade. Katrina âreawakened the Black radical imaginationâ in 2005. Like a wave, the momentum builtâŚ
