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A Legacy of Torture in Chicago | Peter C. Baker

A Legacy of Torture in Chicago | Peter C. Baker

AdvertisementSubmit a letter:Email usReviewed:by Laurence RalphUniversity of Chicago Press, 242 pp., $75.00; $19.00 (paper)Chicago has a police torture problem. The exact size of this problem is not known and perhaps never will be. What is known for sure is that between 1972 and 1991 at least 125 black Chicagoans were tortured by police officers in the Area 2 precinct building on the city’s predominantly black South Side. Depending on the day and the officers involved, the victims were beaten, shackled to steaming hot radiators, electrocuted, and raped with sex toys. They were tortured into...

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