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.
The author dissects Black time and space in order to better understand the nature and mechanics of Black life and death lived in the antiblack world.
In practice, defunding police leads to endless dickering with local politicians and allows reformists to present themselves as abolitionists.
The white ruling class is evicting the squatter-in-chief (Trump) for violating the class collaborative agreement.
When cops create lists of kids “at risk” of falling into crime, it becomes a self-fulfilling indictment.
Rent strikers are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership of housing for everyone.
