U.S. attorney, FBI probing allegations of police torture :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State This is an interesting story about police brutality in the 1980s Chicago department.
"The United States attorney's office is conducting an active criminal investigation into allegations of perjury, false statements and obstruction of justice by officers who served in the Chicago Police Department in the 1980s, in relation to currently pending federal civil lawsuits in which persons in Chicago Police Department custody during those years allege they were abused." Fitzgerald was speaking at an unrelated news conference.At least a few of the prosecutors appear to have gone along with this - ignoring suspects who appeared to have been beaten.
At least 148 men, almost all of them African-American, told a special prosecutor that Burge and his officers at the old Area 2 police station beat them to extract confessions. Some of those men went to Death Row on false confessions until former Gov. George Ryan pardoned them. The city fired Burge, saying he was responsible for the torture of suspects. But a special prosecutor concluded it was too late to file charges against Burge or his officers.
This is where it gets a little interesting. Mayor
Politics aside, this is an ugly story. This wasn't 1 man, so there will probably be some conspiracy charges.
Special Prosecutor Edward Egan said last year that at least a dozen police officers in Burge's "midnight crew" at the Area 2 station in Pullman tortured suspects, and at least three former prosecutors acquiescedSurprising that it is being prosecuted after 20 years.
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