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Former police commander Jon Burge, whose name has become synonymous in this city with police torture, was arrested this morning at his home in Tampa, Florida. He's been charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, charges which carry decades of jail time if Burge is convicted.
Burge was fired in 1993 and has been living in Florida collecting his CPD pension, and Burge has never been charged with any crime - until now. After last year's $20 million judgement from the city to settle four cases, four aldermen sent a letter to Federal attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to prosecute Burge for torture. Now it seems that Fitzgerald has followed through.
Rather than try to give a thumbnail history of the Jon Burge saga in Chicago, we'll just direct you to the archive of exhaustive, comprehensive and excellent coverage that John Conroy did for the Chicago Reader, located here.
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Send him to Guantanamo & let him get tortured by the CIA.
Let's see how he like it!
But first sale off every thing he owns like that Florida house, not that we could recoup a third of the money he has costed this city and county!
Wonder what this will mean for Daley and his work as state's attorney, and whether that work will come under new light.
Pat Fitz is our only hope of ever getting rid of the mayor and crew.
It depends what they mean by torture. Besides what if they were enemy combatants? It wouldn't be torture right?
Nope, Navin, voters or the grim reaper are better hopes, I fear. The mayor, like his old man, apparently does not take bribes, and despite what many say and hope, is likely too smart to expose himself too much. God, I hope I'm wrong. On the other hand, it should be the duty of citizens, not appointed attorneys, to exile corrupt leaders and tyrants. Too many citizens of Chicago apparently share in the spoils of corruption, or have become apathetic, or can't imagine this city without a Daley in charge.
On a blog referring to Obama's election night speech being given in Grant Park, a commenter posted the following remark which cracked me up and is pertinent to the above story:
"Well, if he’s got the Chicago Police on his side, any would-be assassins will be thoroughly beaten and gassed"