WTF???? Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/19/homan-square-chicago-police-disappeared-thousands
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Police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago, nearly twice as many detentions as previously disclosed, the Guardian can now reveal.
Homan Square: an interactive portrait of detainees at Chicago's police facility

From August 2004 to June 2015, nearly 6,000 of those held at the facility were black, which represents more than twice the proportion of the city’s population. But only 68 of those held were allowed access to attorneys or a public notice of their whereabouts, internal police records show.

The new disclosures, the result of an ongoing Guardian transparency lawsuit and investigation, provide the most detailed, full-scale portrait yet of the truth about Homan Square, a secretive facility that Chicago police have described as little more than a low-level narcotics crime outpost where the mayor has said police “follow all the rules”.

82.2% of people detained at Homan Square were black, compared with 32.9% of the Chicago population.
11.8% of detainees in the Homan Square logs were Hispanic, compared with 28.9% of the population.
5.5% of the detainees were white, compared with 31.7% of the population.
Of the 68 people who Chicago police claim had access to counsel at Homan Square, however, 45% were black, 26% were Hispanic and another 26% were white.

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WTF is going on??

[Kelvin Mace]

1. It is called a police state

It is what we live in.

I have warned people about this for over a decade, but they have preferred to deny the fact.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Kickin' the police state. n/t

[Iggo]

3. Yay, Cops!

They're the best!

[Hortensis]

4. Half the people in this country do NOT believe in the Constitution

and the Bill of Rights as they are written and interpreted for over 200 years. They believe in inquality, not equality. They do not believe that all men are created equal and endowed with equal rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. They think that's foolish, liberal nonsense.

The Constitution was meant to be used by We the People to safeguard our rights, but most of the same people who argue passionately for small government when it comes to money believe in the necessity of huge government when it comes to controlling all those "others" they disapprove of so strongly.

And then, of course, there are all those who neither look nor see, nor act.

That's how this happens.