The Case of False Confessions - Midnight Crew

📻 Episode #360
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 22, 2023

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About This Episode

In Chicago, old habits die hard.

The Case

In Chicago, old habits die hard.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside one of the worst police abuse scandals in U.S. history. For decades on the southside of Chicago, a group of white cops turned the interrogation room into a torture chamber for Black men. Those cops called themselves the Midnight Crew.

We are releasing this updated episode to share that even though the city passed a reparations bill that will compensate Jon Burge's victims and their families, the promise has yet to be fulfilled.

https://chicagotorture.org/

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https://www.centeronwrongfulconvictions.org/

In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts

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00:04:01
“Speaker 1: too hot in a Southside neighborhood called Gage Park. In Speaker 1: the middle of the night, a brick bungalow goes up Speaker 1: in flames. After firefighters bring the blaze under control, police Speaker 1: go inside. They find five bodies, two women who had Speaker 1: worked as teacher's aids at a local school, and three”

00:15:16
“Speaker 5: of a society is can you stand up and defend Speaker 5: the rights of people whom you abhor. Speaker 1: During Andrew Wilson's trial, his attorneys started receiving letters in Speaker 1: Chicago police envelopes from an inside whistleblower. The department's torture problem, Speaker 1: it seemed, went much further than Andrew Wilson.”

00:26:11
“Speaker 1: And that's where you'll find Ronald Kitchen today. He and Speaker 1: other survivors of the Midnight Crew visit classrooms across Chicago Speaker 1: where they talk to teenagers about what they endured and Speaker 1: what they hope can be learned from their ordeals. And Speaker 1: if you pay attention to the way Chicago's kids react”

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