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Auteur(s) : Ralph, Laurence
Titre(s) : The torture letters [Texte imprimé] : reckoning with police violence / Laurence Ralph
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIV-242 pages) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim
reality, but everyone knows it happens - and that the torturers are the police. Three
to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois
each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and
1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working
under former Police Commander John Burge. As the more recent revelations from the
Homan Square "black site" show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly.
For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have
instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds--perhaps thousands--of
Chicago residents. Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the
burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public's complicity
in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary
meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
to Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection
of open letters written to protesters, victims, students, and others. Through these
moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began
in Burge's Area Two and follows the city's networks of torture to the global War on
Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay -Ralph's story extends as far as
the legacy of American imperialism
Sujet(s) : Violence policière -- Chicago (Ill., États-Unis)
Torture -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
363.254 (23e éd.) = Interrogatoires des témoins
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226490533. - ISBN 022649053X. - ISBN 9780226650098. - ISBN 022665009X. -
ISBN 9780226650128 (erroné). - ISBN 9780226729800 (erroné) (ebook) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457901622
Notice n° :
FRBNF45790162
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Table des matières : Prologue: a half century of torture ; Introduction ; The black box ; The B-team
; Charging genocide ; Bad guys ; Conclusion ; Epilogue: a model for justice
