John Conroy, Town Without Pity: Police torture in Chicago. Chicago Reader, 11 January 1996. “Police torture [in Chicago]: The courts know about it, the media know about it, and chances are you know about it. So why aren’t we doing anything about it?”
January 11, 1996
Town Without Pity: Police torture in Chicago: The courts know about it, the media know about it, and chances are you know about it. So why aren’t we doing anything about it?
January 11, 1996 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Police Brutality, Poverty, Racism, Torture Tagged With: aaron patterson, chicago area two violent crimes unit, chicago police department's office of professional standards, citizens alert, darrell cannon, electroshock treatment, goldston report, gregory banks, john stainthorp, jon burge, madison hobley, people's law office, phillip adkins, police brutality and torture, police superintendent matt rodriguez, stanley howard, suffocation with a typewriter cover
January 25, 1990
House of Screams: Torture by Electroshock: Could it happen in a Chicago police station? Did it happen at Area 2?
John Conroy, House of Screams: Torture by Electroshock. Chicago Reader. 25 January 1990. “Torture by Electroshock: Could it happen in a Chicago police station? Did it happen at Area 2?… What if a parade of men arrested by detectives at Area 2 over the course of a decade…claimed that they had been interrogated by electrical means, or had plastic bags put over their heads, or had their fingers put in bolt cutters, or were threatened with being thrown off a roof? What if there was no connection at all between the alleged victims, no evidence of any collusion among them, and yet they kept pointing to the same police station and the same group of officers?” [Read more…]
January 25, 1990 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Police Brutality, Poverty, Racism, Torture Tagged With: Amanda Rivkin, chicago police department's office of professional standards, chicago police superintendent richard brzeczek, cook county jail, dr. john raba, dr. raymond warpeha, dr. robert kirschner, electroshock, john stainthorp, judge brian barnett duff, lieutenant jon beuge (commanding officer of area 2 violent crimes--chicago), melvin jones, people's law office, public defender dale coventry, russian roulette, torture, william kunkle (chicago lawyer)