A 25-year fight to bring Jon Burge and police who systematically tortured black men to justice makes a critical breakthrough.
At the head of Chicago’s police torture ring was Jon Burge, a decorated Vietnam veteran who once made his name for himself as a young cop on the beat on the South Side of Chicago. As Police Commander, first at Area Three on Chicago’s North side and then at Area Two on the South, Burge is said to have instituted some of the same techniques he saw deployed in Vietnam, to brutal effect.