The closer you look at the American Police State, the worse it gets. A week after its (largely unnoticed) series on Chicago police torturer Richard Zuley, The Guardian has another story on Homan Square, the warehouse the police used to torture victims into false confessions, or sometimes just to "teach them a lesson."
Both should be required reading for anyone discussing the issues in American policing in the 21st century. It is yet another example that the "Rule of Law" does not exist in America. Detainees are arrested, but not booked as required by McNabb v, US 318 U.S. 332 (1943) ad its progeny (don't even think about Miranda Warnings).
In the early part of the 20th century, beaten confessions were accepted in US courts and so common that police manuals of the day had specific instructions as to haw to do it most effectively. It was against this backdrop that Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278, (1936), McNabb, Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478 (1964) and Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) were decided. In each of those cases, the Court noted the high likelihood of convicting the innocent if the standard police practices were allowed to continue.
Apparently, the Police in Chicago did not care to follow the law. Does anyone really doubt that this is an unusual circumstance. In American, police violate the law whenever they want, and they are seldom held accountable. Even when they are, it's never more than a slap on the wrist (for even a serial torturer like Jon Burge), while hundreds of innocent victims of police torture remain incarcerated.