Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871–1971 / / Elizabeth Dale.
In 2015, Chicago became the first city in the United States to create a reparations fund for victims of police torture, after investigations revealed that former Chicago police commander Jon Burge tortured numerous suspects in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. But claims of police torture have ev...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction Police Torture in Chicago before Jon Burge
- Chapter One Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1936
- Chapter Two Murder in Black and White
- Chapter Three On Trial
- Chapter Four Appeal
- Chapter Five Patterns and Practice, 1936-1971
- Conclusion The Burden of Proof
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments