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“The dentist wiggled the drill from side to side as the prisoner writhed in pain. The officers pledged to have him do the same to every last tooth in the suspect’s head. The suspect confessed.”
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
“The criminalization of black property violence in the sixties, compared with the failure to assertively criminalize white interpersonal violence in the fifties, is worth remembering.”
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
“depriving prisoners of sleep, banging rubber hoses across a suspect’s abdomen, placing a box over an individual’s head and filling it with tear gas, applying acid to genitals, hanging prisoners upside down by their ankles or beating them with poles to the point of eyeball dislocation and blindness”
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
“Police containment of vice to black neighborhoods had other effects, as well. For one, it reinforced racist perceptions of black people as unfit for urban life.”
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
“In the buildup to the 1919 riot, for instance, Wells had implored the city to do something to punish white terrorists targeting black homes for bombing. As we have seen, they did nothing.”
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
― Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power
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