After crimes occur against humanity, erecting memorials is an important way for people to educate themselves about what happened and resolve it won’t happen again.
It’s mystifying that, after years of discussion, Chicago still has not put up a monument to the victims of police torture at the hands of former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge and his so-called Midnight Crew, who tortured men, mostly African American, on the South Side from the 1970s to 1991. Burge and the Midnight Crew’s techniques included beatings, pretending to fire a gun into the mouth of a victim and using a cattle prod on victims’ genitals, ears, nose and fingers.
