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The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago

The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago

Taylor, Flint

Paperback

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1642594695
ISBN13: 9781642594690
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 556
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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