#166 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - The Midnight Crew

#166 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - The Midnight Crew

In Chicago, old habits die hard.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside one of the worst police abuse scandals in U.S. history. For decades on the southside of Chicago, a group of white cops turned the interrogation room into a torture chamber for Black men. Those cops called themselves the Midnight Crew.

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