Chicago to Pay Reparations to Police Torture Victims
This scenario looms in the future of every city with an out of control police force.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Tuesday that the city has reached an agreement to provide a sweeping package of reparations to victims of a notorious Chicago police commander who for decades ran a torture ring against suspects.
Police officers under former Chicago police commander Jon Burge used electrical shock, burning and mock executions to elicit confessions from suspects, mostly African-American, from the early 1970s through the early 1990s.
The statute of limitations ran out on his alleged crimes, but Burge was convicted in 2010 of perjury in civil proceedings for lying about torture he oversaw.
Burge was released from prison to a halfway house in October after serving less than four years in prison. He was released from the halfway house earlier this year.
Burge still receives a pension for his years on the force.