Screen LibraryChicago's reckoning : racism, politics, and the deep history of policing in an American city /
"Chicago is confronting a racial reckoning that we explain with an exclusion-containment theory of legal cynicism. Mayors RJ and RM Daley used public and private funds to exclude and contain South and West side predominantly Black neighborhoods where police Detective Jon Burge supervised tortur...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Chicago is confronting a racial reckoning that we explain with an exclusion-containment theory of legal cynicism. Mayors RJ and RM Daley used public and private funds to exclude and contain South and West side predominantly Black neighborhoods where police Detective Jon Burge supervised torture of over 100 Black men. A 1982 case involved Andrew Wilson's tortured confession to two police killings. This case coincided with RM Daley's pursuit of White votes in an early and unsuccessful primary campaign for mayor. Suspicions about Daley's connection to Wilson's confession lasted throughout his career. As State's Attorney, Daley mobilized a massive assault on "gangs, guns, and drugs" by tightening law enforcement methods. An example involved the Automatic Transfer Act used to prosecute 15 year-old Joseph White in adult court for shooting a fellow student. The judge thought White should have sought help from police, but he and his family knew the police as brutal occupiers of local neighborhoods. White was sentenced to 45 years in a maximum-security prison. Jon Burge was finally convicted in 2010-of perjury-but he served only three years, while many of his victims remained on death row. In a sidebar in the Burge trial-unheard by jurors-the judge refused to allow evidence about a racialized code of silence that concealed Burge's torture. Our book ends by explaining how Daley and Burge escaped meaningful punishment through the code of silence and out of court settlements. These remain unrelenting sources of the racial reckoning confronting this quintessential American city"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-228) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780197627860 0197627862 |
| Index Number: | HV7936 |
| CLC: | D771.235 |
| Call Number: | D771.235/H141 |
| Contents: | Prologue: Daley's law : scandals in black and white -- Two mayors and "the midnight crew" -- Politics and punishment Chicago-style -- Two mothers/two sons -- Shut out, locked up, and foreclosed -- History is not the past -- Prolonging the thirty-year cover-up -- Call it by its name -- Epilogue: 16 shots : front and back Appendix: Data sources and measures. |