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.
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A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford When the United States and Saudi Arabia partnered to spread global jihadist terror, they set the stage for massacres throughout Asia and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The recent Paris talks on climate change failed utterly to slow the planetary slide towards extinction. The human-induced heat wave will continue…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The methods of repression that are now directed against Muslims and Arabs in the United States were developed to oppress Black Americans and will return…
