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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA link to a long story about a very bad cop who got caught, and the City of Chicago
paid millions to those people this bad cop, Commander John Burge, " punished"
......Also, former Commander Burge spent some time in prison..Yes, in prison for harming people captured who did no wrong....Yes, very long, but worth while reading...........
Many cops were punished because of this asshole, and many payments were made to rectify wrongs..payments in millions of dollars to people wrongly convicted.. read the long story..yes, it did happen.
first paragraph of story at link:
"Jon Burge joined the Chicago Police Department in 1970, serving in various investigative posts and as commander from 1986 until his firing in 1993. He was convicted in 2010 of lying about the torture of suspects. Special prosecutors had alleged Burge and his so-called midnight crew of rogue detectives led the torture of criminal suspects for two decades, coercing dozens of confessions."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-jon-burge-chicago-police-torture-timeline-20180919-htmlstory.html
lunasun
(21,646 posts)His body is completely rotted in the ground by now thankfully
Hope all his midnight crew are in the same situation
ProfessorGAC
(65,057 posts)He's scum!
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)Stuart G
(38,428 posts)I have read about this for years. I lived in Chicago when this story broke. Because of what you named it, I believe that
a movie could be made with that name. But the movie would be more horrific, because of its truth. And yes, it would be very
ugly about police. But as has been said, "Truth is stranger than fiction."