The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence

In The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (University of Chicago Press), Laurence Ralph details the shockingly dense history of torture in Chicago and connects it irrefutably with race and police violence. Within the book, Ralph writes a series of open letters addressed to protesters, victims, and others, connecting local police violence to the War on Terror, and tracing torture from law enforcement to politics to the courts.