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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?

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?”

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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