Chicago's reckoning : racism, politics, and the deep history of policing in an American city

Chicago's reckoning : racism, politics, and the deep history of policing in an American city / John Hagan, Bill McCarthy, and Daniel Herda.

"Chicago is confronting a racial reckoning that we explain with an exclusion-containment theory of legal cynicism. Mayors RJ and RM Daley used public and private funds to exclude and contain South and West side predominantly Black neighborhoods where police Detective Jon Burge supervised tortur...

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Main Authors: Hagan, John, 1947- (Author), McCarthy, Bill, 1958- (Author), Herda, Daniel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Police brutality > Illinois > Chicago.
Police corruption > Illinois > Chicago.
Discrimination in law enforcement > Illinois > Chicago.
Mayors > Illinois > Chicago.
Discrimination in law enforcement
Mayors
Police brutality
Police corruption
Illinois > Chicago
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: scandals in black and white
  • Two mayors and "the midnight crew"
  • Politics and punishment Chicago-style
  • Two mothers/two sons / with Carla Shedd and Paul Hirschfield
  • Shut out, locked up, and foreclosed / with Andrea Cann Chandrasekher
  • History is not the past
  • Prolonging the thirty-year cover-up
  • Call it by its name
  • Epilogue: 16 shots-front and back.

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