That’s why the Johnnie Savory case is so remarkable, because it goes on for 40 years and it implicates not only prosecutors and detectives but also implicates a series of judges in the federal and state courts who refused to do anything, refused to recognize the realities of this wrongful conviction.

Lawyer and activist Flint Taylor returns to the program to discuss his recent article in the Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report "The Wrongful Conviction of Johnnie Lee Savory.

Taylor’s work in fighting against police torture in Chicago over the past 29 years has been instrumental in obtaining the conviction and imprisonment of police torture ringleader Jon Burge and the precedent setting decision that upheld the inclusion of former Mayor Richard M. Daley as a co-conspiring defendant in the Tillman civil rights case.

Guest

Flint Taylor

Flint Taylor is a founding partner of the People’s Law Office in Chicago.

Monstrous Torture by the Depraved Police / Flint Taylor

Flint Taylor

Who Will Fill The Baconcy Left By Pigasus?

Robot Dogs Are on Patrol, But Who's Holding the Leash?

Hyperviolent Supercops Assassinate With Impunity / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Coplovers Hit Back Against Reforms With Fearmongering / Katya Schwenk

Why the Police is a Danger to Democracy / Austin McCoy

Nobody is Protected / Reece jones

Fighting the torture machine: On the past and present of Chicago police violence.

Fighting police crime, and the city that covers it up.

Remembering the assassination of Fred Hampton, and the threat to Black liberation today.

The city won't reform the police. The city is the police.

Understanding the civil mechanisms of police impunity.

The Chicago police department won't fix the Chicago police department.