Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1971, Dale 978087580739 HB^+

Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago 18711971\nby Elizabeth Dale\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Elizabeth Dale\nTitle: Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago 18711971\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: True crime\nPublisher: MB - Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9780875807393\nISBN-10: 0875807399\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn 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 .