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The Torture Letters
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence | Laurence Ralph
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Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens�and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief (…more)
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effani
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This was a hard book to read, but super important. I don't have any real connection to Chicago, so I didn't know anything about the history of police torture there, and it's horrifying. And of course the author makes a compelling case that it's not a one-off involving “a few bad apples“ but baked into the system. Definitely worth reading, because police violence hasn't gone away, even if the news cycle has moved on.

effani I got this for free back in June, and my only complaint is that the DRM-locked format meant it took forever to read, since I had to find times when I felt able to read about difficult topics AND was able to read on my tablet, which I don't like doing. 4y
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This is a powerful, stark piece that goes beyond the police violence that we see on all of those horrifying cell phone videos to the illegal torture of countless human beings by the Chicago police, which was an open secret for years. It‘s tragic, hard to read, and infuriating, but this is something everyone should learn about. It‘s certainly not isolated to Chicago. The militarization of the police should be terrifying and appalling to all of us.

Texreader Agreed!! The militarization of the police to me is just as bad as sending in our own military to confront our own people. What the heck kind of country are we living in? 5y
annahenke Thank you for making me aware. Adding this to my DEI education list. 5y
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effani
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Signal boosting, via @sprainedbrain: This book is free through June 6 and looks like a good, timely read. Check it out! https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html (There are some annoying DRM hoops to jump through and it's not available on kindle, but I grabbed it anyway and you should too.)

sprainedbrain I finally gave up trying to get it downloaded and I‘m reading it online. 😃 5y
effani @sprainedbrain I finally managed to download it, but now I have to read it on my tablet, which I don't really like to do. I think it should be worth it, though. 5y
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There are a lot of great lists floating around right now with important books for all of us to read.

Signal boosting this book (on my tbr), that is free until 6/6 from Chicago University Press:

https://press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

It‘s not enough to be non-racist—we must be anti-racist and we must be active allies.

Black Lives Matter.

effani Thanks for the link! I'm going to grab a copy right now. 5y
AmyG Thank you. 5y
Meaw_catlady Black lives matter! ❤️ 5y
Eyelit Excellent - thanks for sharing the link! 5y
HOTPock3tt Black lives matter! ♥️🙌🏽 5y
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