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Home » police torture

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Posted inColumns & Opinion

Torture survivors’ silence will not protect the Chicago Police Department

by Cindy Eigler and Aislinn Pulley March 10, 2020August 18, 2021

An effort by the Fraternal Order of Police to prosecute survivors for telling their stories is an all-to-common abuse tactic.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago Torture Justice Memorials is pushing ahead to create a site of remembrance for Burge victims

by Maya Dukmasova March 13, 2019August 18, 2021

Monthlong exhibition will feature designs for a future memorial organizers are committed to building despite a lack of city funding.

Posted inBlogs

That time a Cook County judge ruled on the case of a man he himself put in prison when he was still a prosecutor

by Maya Dukmasova May 25, 2018August 18, 2021

In 2006 John Conroy reported an incredible story about how the Jon Burge torture scandal continues to reverberate in the judiciary

Posted inBlogs

Mendoza and Munger continue to spar even though the comptroller’s race is over, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd December 21, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, former Mayor Daley is scheduled for deposition in January in a Jon Burge-related torture lawsuit.

Posted inBlogs

Todd Ricketts tapped by Trump for Commerce Department, and more Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd December 1, 2016August 18, 2021

Trump passes on the bouquet to Ricketts scion Todd, bids him to say hello to the folks.

Posted inBlogs

Cook County Jail fights left ten people hospitalized, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd October 28, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, a new tool that matches CPD officers’ names and badge numbers with their photos.

Posted inBlogs

A federal indictment of a Chicago cop adds a new pressure point for police reform

by Maya Dukmasova September 22, 2016August 18, 2021

The U.S. attorney’s suit against Officer Marco Proano is just one of a host of legal challenges facing CPD.

Posted inBlogs

Special prosecutor chosen for Laquan McDonald murder trial, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd August 5, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, Foursquare data shows Donald Trump’s losing business in Chicago.

Posted inBlogs

Two panels on Chicago police misconduct found the same problems 43 years apart

by Steve Bogira April 20, 2016August 18, 2021

The findings of the Police Accountability Task Force are depressingly familiar.

Posted inBlogs

Torture Commission can only help victims whose torture stemmed from Burge

by Steve Bogira April 5, 2016August 18, 2021

Other convicts who may have been tortured into confessing are out of luck, an appellate panel rules.

Posted inBlogs

Where’s Chicago in Chicago P.D.?

by Dmitry Samarov January 22, 2016August 18, 2021

Seen in light of the real Chicago Police Department, Dick Wolf’s cop series looks even more clueless and tone-deaf.

Posted inBlogs

John Conroy’s drama about police torture gets published not a moment too soon

by Michael Miner December 16, 2015August 18, 2021

My Kind of Town dramatizes the former Reader reporter’s writing on police brutality.

The apartment complex where a retired Chicago police detective believes more Gacy victims were buried
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Former Reader editor delves into the hunt for more of John Wayne Gacy’s dead

by Michael Miner April 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Former Reader editor delves into the hunt for more of John Wayne Gacy’s dead.

My Kind of Town sets up CSI-esque legal intrigue
Posted inArts & Culture

Bad cop, bad cop

by Justin Hayford May 16, 2012August 19, 2021

My Kind of Town and The Whole World Is Watching, look at ugly chapters in Chicago history

"Those of us who love Chicago laugh off and almost wear as a badge of honor that there's corruption. Indicting the audience is a conversation worth having." —TimeLine's artistic director P.J. Powers, on John Conroy's My Kind of Town
Posted inColumns & Opinion

John Conroy’s investigative work for the Reader adapted for the stage

by Michael Miner May 1, 2012August 19, 2021

John Conroy’s play My Kind of Town distills the drama unearthed by a persistent journalist

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