Police Torture

Government Widens Chicago Police Torture Probe: Report

Chicago Tribune | Steve Mills and Jeff Coen | Posted 03.07.2009 | Chicago


Federal prosecutors continue to investigate decades-old allegations that Chicago police routinely tortured murder suspects, focusing on a half-dozen d...

Attorney General Madigan Moving Burge Police Torture Cases To Cook County State's Attorney

Chicago Sun-Times | John Conroy and Maurice Possley | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago


After five years of fighting to keep Chicago Police torture cases from being reopened, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is seeking to shift resp...

Burge Pleads Not Guilty

Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago


UPDATE Carol Marin reports that the Fraternal Order of Police is rumored to be paying for Burge's criminal defense. Burge lawyer Bill Gamboney said o...