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Police Torture in Chicago 

An archive of articles by John Conroy on police torture, Jon Burge, and related issues

By John Conroy

The Persistence of Andrew Wilson
A cop killer who fought to expose torture in the Chicago Police Department has died, but his testimony from beyond the grave could still help bring down its perpetrators.
November 29, 2007

Is This a Gag?
The city’s lawyers claim a gag order prevents them from discussing the strange deal they made to settle police torture lawsuits. There’s no order.
September 28, 2007

The Meter's Still Running and the Mayor's Still Mum
Since 2003 the city has paid some $7 million in legal fees to fight five police torture lawsuits it probably can't win. The latest turn in this saga involves a secret settlement agreement designed to protect Daley.
July 6, 2007

Twenty Questions
Lawyers for police torture victims are trying to get Mayor Daley on the stand. We've got a few things to ask him too.
May 11, 2007

Confessions of a Torturer
An Army Interrogator's Story
March 1, 2009

The Good Cop
Detective Frank Laverty did the right thing - and paid for it for years.
January 5, 2007

Blind Justices?
The prosecutors who sent police torture victims to prison are now the judges who keep them there.
December 1, 2006

Doe in the Headlights
By trying so hard to keep his name out of the police torture report, Lawrence Hyman has made sure it’s a name we'll always associate with police torture.
July 19, 2006

The Police Torture Scandal: A Who's Who
With the results of a four-year, multimillion dollar investigation due any day, here’s a guide by staff reporter John Conroy to the key figures in the scandal. Some of them may look familiar.
June 16, 2006

What Does John Doe Know? The guy blocking the special prosecutor's report on Chicago police torture may be trying to protect more than his own name.
June 9, 2006

Tools of Torture
Though he continues to deny it, Jon Burge tortured suspects while he was a Chicago police detective. Now his contemporaries from Vietnam reveal where he may have learned the tricks of his trade.
February 4, 2005

The Mysterious Third Device
February 4, 2005

Torturer's Logic
All over the world, torturers have one thing in common: they think they're doing the right thing.
May 14, 2004

Deaf to the Screams The next state's attorney to investigate police torture in Chicago will be the first.
August 1, 2003

A Hell of a Deal
His job is to prosecute criminals. But if the criminals are cops, state's attorney Dick Devine doesn't want to hear about it. Now, with Devine offering inmates their freedom if they'll drop their claims of torture, some defense attorneys suggest appointing a prosecutor to go over his head.
October 12, 2001

What Price Freedom?
Darrell Cannon has accepted a plea bargain that will spare him a lifetime in prison. But there's a catch: the police officers he's accused of torture won't be forced to testify.
March 2, 2001

The Magic Can
It grows. It shrinks. It leaps throught locked doors. If you believe that, you won't mind if the state executes Madison Hobley.
May 26, 2000

Pure Torture
Police lieutenant Raymond Patterson didn't believe his son Aaron was a gangbanger. He was wrong. Then he didn't believe that police officers had forced Aaron to confess to a double murder. He may have been wrong about that too.
December 3, 1999

Poison in the System
Darrell Cannon and a parade of men claim they were tortured by detectives at Area Two. Why won't the police department confront its demons?
June 25, 1999

Shot in the Dark
In the confusion surrounding the bloody shoot-out that killed Nick Richard, one thing is perfectly clear—the police department doesn't want to hear about it.
November 6, 1998

The Shocking Truth After insisting for years that Andrew Wilson was never tortured by police, why did the city then begin insisting that he was?
January 10, 1997

Town Without Pity Police torture: The courts know about it, the media know about it, and chances are you know about it. So why aren't we doing anything about it?
January 12, 1996

House of Screams Torture by electroshock: Could it happen in a Chicago police station? Did it happen at Area 2?
January 26, 1990

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In December of 2005 my son Leonard was abducted by officer Greg Duran. Lenny was gone three days. He has developed post tramatic stress disorder. within the week of his escape he suffered a complete mental collaps. That is to say he believes that he is in the back of the van. He spent 3 years in the abused childrens department of Mt. Sinia Hospital,( under the rainbow). The cop was never called to account.
We have exhasted all possabilitys,"OPS"
After seven attempts to get a police report the police began to threaten Lenny..

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Posted by kimballmaster@yahoo.com on 12/23/2010 at 2:05 PM

Child molesting cop is of no intrest to CPD
In December of 2005 my son Leonard was abducted by officer Greg Duran. Lenny was gone three days. He has developed post tramatic stress disorder. within the week of his escape he suffered a complete mental break. That is to say he believed that he was in the back of the van. He spent 3 years in the abused childrens department of Mt. Sinia Hospital,(under the rainbow). The cop was never called to account.
We have exhasted all possabilitys,"OPS" took all of our documentation and provided them to the lawyers for the city, and interviewed absolutely no witnesses.
After seven attempts to get a police report (without a police report the district attorny would not entertain the thought of criminal prosecution) the police began to threaten Lenny..
knowone has given any explaination. To our knowledge Officer Doran has never been called to account or to explain what he did to my son for three days.
he can not speak of the experience even to the care givers at Mt. Sinia.
I wonder how many other children have been affected by this bad man.

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Posted by kimballmaster@yahoo.com on 12/23/2010 at 2:18 PM

I am very good 70 years old lady all my live people complement me . I don't have nothing to do with the crime I never commit in my live ANY CRIME !!

BUT IN CHICAGO I AM MARIA KRASNOPOLSKY GOING TROUGH HORRIBLE TERROR BY POLICE DEPARTMENT OR EVEN FROM FBI ADGENT"S !
1988 we found in our Chicago Apartment our mother , she was brutally injuring ! Back of my mother head was inhumanly crashed ! Soon after ,I start to realized somebody touch my body at night . People tell me all time -I could' believe that till 12/12/09. I was wake up and my legs was brutally burning . Since it's happen they didn't leave me alone ! Every single Day as soon I close my eyes . They terrorized my body . I got this people on my private surveillance . You could see 11.30 P.M. I am in my apartment group of people working on my body . They applied heavy duty electrical devices in order to burning my veins and capillaries on my legs ! After they brutally push my torso down and something treacherously going on for very long time ! To see myself in this situation -very scare !!! My eyes was open I was in trance condition ! My body was like stone !! They constantly sent to our apartment TOXIC GAS it's make human extremely drowsy ! As soon I am became unconsciousness , they torturing my body ! Looks like Chicago People enjoying this kind activity ! SHAME !!!

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Posted by marvic on 03/18/2011 at 3:02 PM

The use of COLD Celling and Merry GO ROUNDS at Jails ... Environmental Manipulation ... FREEZING detainees and Inmates is RAMPANT ACROSS THE US ... Please contact me Thanks

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The PIGS are protecting the CORRUPTION. They are a disgrace. Look at them and all their POLICE all armed with battons. Where the hell were they when our people were being robbed . Scumbags that's what they are CRIMINAL PROTECTING TRASH http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGGE_e…

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Posted by Judson Witham on 11/01/2011 at 9:07 AM

From: shanan.doah@yahoo.com
On National Security and Public Safety I have plenty to leak to the press

My dearest President Obama,

As one of many who worked long and hard for the promised change, corruption within our various Governments (Local, State and Federal) remains a major un-tackled issue, particularly within the Judicial System. In “the spirit of” Pennsylvania’s “Kids for Cash” and Penn State’s child molestation scandals, a corrupt “judge” recently suppressed evidence pertaining to the sale of knowingly defective toxic products to consumers by a major retailer. Following a complaint to Congressman Steve Rothman, The State’s Attorney General charged with public safety informed us that they “do not deal with such issues”. The FBI asked me to call other agencies, and FBI’s Cynthia M. Deitle, now managing Boston’s FBI Office division of Public Corruption and Civil Rights Programs also declared that: recurring terrorizing bias threats to rape and murder children and women, acts of terror such as biased food tainting occurring at a major food retailer catering to thousands, and demands for bribe ($900) by a police detective in order (for him) to investigate… “DO NOT RISE TO A LEVEL REQUIRING AN FBI INVESTIGATION”.
Since the (Bush) firing of U.S. Attorneys scandal, rampant illegal activities at a Federal level brought lose of an immense scale into the homes of numerous Americans, are out of step with the country, and present a real threat by the Fed’s to the fabric of the country.
“The people” are not safe under such a corrupt Department of Justice, and evidence will be provided if you are willing to fix this grave problem.
Can you fix our country? We are willing to help.

You promised to fight corruption but have not done so. WHY?

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Posted by Shanan Doah on 01/23/2012 at 9:19 PM
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