The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, Hardcover

The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, Hardcover

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An publicare
2012
Nr. Pagini
350
ISBN
9781608468959

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Contributor(s):Author: Flint Taylor With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-up within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's political machine, from aldermen to the mayor's office. Torture Machine takes the reader from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark--and the historic, thirteen-year trial that followed--through the dogged pursuit of chief detective Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from suspects. Taylor and the PLO gathered evidence from multiple cases to bring suit against the CPD, breaking the department's ""code of silence"" that had enabled decades of cover-up. The legal precedents they set have since been adopted in human rights legislation around the world.

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