In a new three-part podcast series that debuts Wednesday, CNN anchor and correspondent Omar Jimenez digs into “one of the darkest chapters in American policing history,” and explains how a two-decade campaign of violence by Chicago law enforcement has had lasting impacts on the city’s Black community.
Tortured Justice with Omar Jimenez delves into the methods used by Jon Burge, a former Chicago police commander, and a group of detectives that called themselves the “Midnight Crew.” Beginning in 1970 and continuing into the early ‘90s, Burge and his men tortured at least 130 Black men and women, abusing many of them to coerce confessions.
