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 BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed wants to give Tyler Perry a half square mile of public land at a ridiculously low price based on fake…
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo In this exclusive interview, Samaria Rice speaks courageously about the day that changed her life forever. Her 12 year old son, Tamir Rice was…
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by BAR Poet-inResidence Raymond Nat Turner Obama’s song to Baltimore: Hey-hey, ya-ya/ la-la, ha-ha… Freddie’s dead/that’s what I said…”
by Ajamu Nangwaya The Yonge Street rebellion was very much in the mold of Black America’s urban uprisings, sparked by police abuse. The disturbances led to a spate of reforms, some of which were…
