“The city is attempting to issue the $900 million in bonds to lower some of its borrowing costs and to double its short-term credit line to $1 billion. But fully $100 million of that debt burden is going to pay off lawsuits, much of it to plaintiffs who won judgments against the city in police brutality cases. Several years ago, the CPD was rocked by a high profile case that eventually found Police Commander Jon Burge and his ‘Midnight Crew’ of officers guilty of torture aimed at forcing suspects to confess to various crimes, whether they were guilty or not.”
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