The torture letters : reckoning with police violence / Laurence Ralph.
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens - and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are curre...
Saved in:
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2020.
|
Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: a half century of torture
- Introduction
- The black box
- The B-team
- Charging genocide
- Bad guys
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: a model for justice.