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- Under the command of Chicago Police Department (CPD) Commander Jon Burge, over 120 people, predominantly African-American men, were tortured from 1972-1991. Jon Burge and officers under his command targeted communities of color, kidnapping and torturing individuals producing confessions to crimes not committed.
www.chicagotorturejustice.org/history
A Chicago police commander and his police officers called the “Midnight Crew” were found guilty of systematically torturing unknown numbers of innocent people and coercing them into false confessions. Below are some of the proven victims, many of whom received reparations from the City of Chicago.
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In 1972, Chicago police officer Jon Burge, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, was promoted to detective and assigned to the Area 2 police headquarters. Torture committed by Burge or at his direction are alleged to have occurred there from 1972 to 1991. The brutal interrogation tactics deployed by Burge and his “Midnight Crew” of officers included moc...
In 1982, Officers William Fahey and Richard O’Brien were gunned down in Burge’s district. Burge arrested Andrew Wilson, who was charged in the case along with his brother Jackie Wilson. Both were convicted in the deaths of the officers; Andrew was sentenced to death, while Jackie received a life sentence. Andrew was later granted a second trial aft...
Civil rights lawyer Joey Mogul became involved with the Burge cases in 1997 as an attorney with the People’s Law Office. Mogul represented Aaron Patterson, one of the “Death Row Ten,” a group of torture survivors advocating for one another with the support of the People’s Law Office and numerous community groups. The city’s admissions in the Andrew...
One survivor is Gerald Reed, who remains incarcerated despite the fact that his conviction was overturned by Illinois Circuit Court Judge Thomas Gainer in December 2018. Reed has been incarcerated for 29 years and he is fighting the state’s efforts to retry him. Unmoved by Gainer’s ruling that Reed’s confession was coerced, special prosecutor Bob M...
After Burge’s 2010 conviction, Chicago activists turned their attention toward winning reparations for Burge torture survivors. In 2015, a sweeping ordinancewas enacted that gave Chicago the distinction of being the first municipality in the nation to provide reparations for racially motivated police violence. The ordinance won some financial compe...
The Chicago Police Torture Archive is a human rights documentation of former Commander Jon Burge’s violence against more than 100 Black men, from the 1970s-1990s. The journalistic centerpiece of this site are the profiles of police torture survivors, most of whom were represented by the People’s Law Office of Chicago.
One filed a civil suit in 1989 against Burge, other officers, and the city, for police torture and cover-up; Burge was acquitted in 1989 because of a hung jury. He was suspended from the Chicago Police Department in 1991 and fired in 1993.
On December 8, 2017, Brittany Covington pleaded guilty to the charges of committing a hate crime, intimidation and aggravated battery. Additional charges, such as kidnapping, were dropped as part of her plea deal. Covington was sentenced to four years of probation and 200 hours of community service.
Nov 11, 2021 · In the process, he and a dedicated group of death row inmates, crusading lawyers, journalists, and community activists would unearth corruption, wrongful conviction, and racist torture on an...
Oct 26, 2016 · Now, the CPD will have to contend with an online, 10,000-document-strong archive of an even more troubling time in its history: the notorious two decades in which officers performed torture.
