Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1971

by Elizabeth Dale

In 2015, Chicago became the first city in the United States to create a reparations fund for victims of police torture, after investigations revealed that former Chicago police commander Jon Burge tortured numerous suspects in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. But claims of police torture have even deeper roots in Chicago. In the late 19th century, suspects maintained that Chicago police officers put them in sweatboxes or held them incommunicado until...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875807399
• ISBN13: 9780875807393
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher