The torture machine : racism and police violence in Chicago
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Published
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.
Physical Desc
542 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.1322 TAYLOR 2019
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364.1322 TAYLOR 2019
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Published
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2019.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
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Includes index.
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"With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes the reader from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark--and the historic thirteen years of litigation that followed--through the dogged pursuit of commander Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from suspects. Joining forces with community activists, torture survivors and their families, other lawyers, and local reporters, Taylor and the PLO gathered evidence from multiple cases to bring suit against the CPD officers and the City of Chicago. As the struggle expanded beyond the torture scandal to the ultimately successful campaign to end the death penalty in Illinois, and obtained reparations for many of the torture survivors, it set human rights precedents that have since been adopted across the United States"--Jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Taylor, F. (2019). The torture machine: racism and police violence in Chicago . Haymarket Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Taylor, Flint. 2019. The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago. Haymarket Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Taylor, Flint. The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago Haymarket Books, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Taylor, Flint. The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago Haymarket Books, 2019.
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