The Torture Letters (Paperback)

Laurence Ralph

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: The University of Chicago Press, 2019

022665009X / 9780226650098

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Paperback. Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happensand 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 Jon 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 hundredsperhaps thousandsof Chicago residents. In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American publics complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwins The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coatess 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 Burges Area Two and follows the citys networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo BayRalphs story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism. Combining insights from fourteen years of research on torture with testimonies of victims of police violence, retired officers, lawyers, and protesters, this is a powerful indictment of police violence and a fierce challenge to all Americans to demand an end to the systems that support it. With compassion and careful skill, Ralph uncovers the tangled connections among law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with usand lending a voice to those long deceased. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titolo
The Torture Letters (Paperback)
Autore
Laurence Ralph
Editore
The University of Chicago Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2019
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
022665009X
ISBN 13
9780226650098

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