#360 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Midnight Crew - UPDATE

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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.

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1:39.2	Hey, it's Lauren I writer. In 2020, we brought you the truly horrifying story of John
1:45.3	Burge. The now disgraced Chicago police officer who oversaw a group of white cops who turned their
1:51.8	investigation room into a torture chamber for black men. They called themselves the midnight crew.
1:58.8	Now there's nothing anyone can do to fully write the wrongs done by John Burge,
2:03.2	but the city of Chicago is making remarkable efforts to ameliorate the damage. To date,
2:09.1	dozens of John Burge's victims have had their sentences overturned. And in 2015, the city passed a
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