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 The U.S. government has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars into corporate accounts by bankrolling for-profit schools that…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Early in the 21st century, the United States appeared to have a large anti-war movement. But, the huge crowds melted away when a Democrat took…
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Washington Post’s effort to tabulate police killings of civilians has discovered that, “among the unarmed victims of police homicides,…
by Danny Haiphong U.S. imperialism attempts to forestall its terminal decline by waging war against much of the world. It is an accomplice in all of Israel’s crimes, and “much, if not all, of …
by Paul Street Attending an Iowa event for Bernie Sanders, Paul Street notes that his crowd is mostly aging left white Democrats who shunned the 2012 Occupy movement, that Bernie Sanders denounces…
