Lawyers say he tortured their clients, forcing
them to confess to crimes they didn't commit. Now attorneys for several
former death row inmates say a memo warning about the alleged actions
of former Police Commander Jon Burge had been sent to Mayor Richard M.
Daley back when he was a prosecutor, and that memo was simply ignored.
Mayor Daley has not said much publicly about the Burge allegations, and
the 2 Investigators have learned the city wants to keep it that way.
The fight to question Mayor Daley is intensifying as attorneys for
alleged police torture victims pursue the case in court. The fight to
question Mayor Daley is intensifying as attorneys for alleged police
torture victims pursue the case in court. They claim Daley failed to
take action against Burge as a far back as 1982 after a letter was
written to him by former Police Superintendent Richard Brezcek. They
say it was a warning to Daley of alleged brutality but nothing was
done. Mayor Daley was Cook County State's Attorney during the time of
at least 69 alleged torture cases and during a time when former Police
Commander Jon Burge and Burge's alleged right-hand man John Byrne were
accused of torturing murder suspects. [more ]
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