The Men Who Lived Underground: The Chicago Police Torture Cases and the Problem of Measuring Police Violence, 1970-2016

《The Men Who Lived Underground: The Chicago Police Torture Cases and the Problem of Measuring Police Violence, 1970-2016》

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作者单位: [Baer, Andrew S.] Univ Alabama Birmingham, HHB 360,1720 2nd Ave South, Birmingham, AL 35294 USA. Baer, AS (reprint author), Univ Alabama Birmingham, HHB 360,1720 2nd Ave South, Birmingham, AL 35294 USA. E-Mail: abaer@uab.edu

摘要: Historical data on the use of force by police officers in the United States are unreliable or nonexistent. Available data, moreover, focus primarily on the behavior of patrolmen on the streets while neglecting violence by detectives during criminal investigations. Through an examination of a police torture scandal in Chicago from the early 1970s through the late 1990s, this article explains why violence during custodial interrogation often goes undocumented. In Chicago, the primary method of discovering, correcting, or preventing custodial abusepretrial motions to suppress statementsproved inadequate. By including the work of detectives, this article argues that a true measurement of police violence, impossible in practice, would likely be much higher than official data suggest.