Guilty

Yesterday, a jury found former Chicago police commander Jon Burge guilty.  Not of the torture which it's alleged he committed and/or oversaw in his years as a detective and commander in Chicago Police Area 2, but of lying about the torture under oath.

Jon Burge at the Federal Building on June 8 this year

Many hundreds of people were (allegedly) tortured, some into confessing to crimes they didn't commit.  Others were never charged with a crime.  Despite notifying the Cook County State's...