Andrew S Baer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5530711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew S Baer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew S |
| FAMILY NAME | Baer |
| SIGNATURE | BAER A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Emily M. Brooks. Gotham’s War within a War
The Politics of Safety
Clarence Taylor. Fight the Power
Journal Article Clarence Taylor. Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City. Get access Clarence Taylor. Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. v, 309. Paper $24.00. Andrew S. Baer Andrew S. Baer University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on…
Beyond the Usual Beating
Chapter Two
This chapter adopts the perspective of detectives working at CPD Area 2 on the city's far South Side during the violent decade of the 1970s. The chapter argues that personal and professional pressures encouraged detectives to torture criminal suspects in high-profile cases.
Chapter Five
This chapter narrates the disclosure of the torture regime in 1989 and the formation of a coalition bent on stopping the abuse, locating victims, and firing Jon Burge. The chapter argues that extant mechanisms for police accountability in Chicago proved weak and inefficient, spurring the mobilization of veteran community activists.
Epilogue
This final section summarizes arguments made throughout the book and connects the Burge scandal and its aftermath to other contemporary movements for police accountability. The story ends with passage of a municipal reparations ordinance in Chicago in 2015 and the death of Jon Burge in 2018. The Chicago torture justice movement offers lessons for current social movements targeting abuses in the criminal justice system in the 21st century.
Chapter Four
Shifting attention away from the police, this chapter examines African American communities’ response to crime, police neglect, and police brutality in the post-civil rights era. The chapter argues that a network of individuals and organizations fought throughout the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to improve the local war on crime and protect the rights of both crime victims and criminal suspects.
Chapter One
This chapter places the Chicago police torture scandal in historical and geographic context, tracing the life and career of Jon Burge from 1947 to 1972. The chapter argues that a series of perceived crises threatening working-class whites in South Chicago after World War II influenced a cohort of detectives to adopt illegal interrogation methods in the 1970s.
Chapter Six
This chapter analyzes the social movement organizations that formed or mobilized in response to the Jon Burge police torture scandal. The chapter argues that coalitions of victims of police violence, their family members, lawyers, and community activists applied sustained pressure on local officials to win a series of important victories against the forces of police violence and cover-up.
Chapter Three
This chapter examines the most well-known of the Jon Burge police torture cases, that of convicted cop killer Andrew Wilson. Zooming-in to the winter of 1982, the chapter argues that public officials responding to a local emergency sanctioned the Burge torture regime and enabled its expansion.
Beyond the Usual Beating
"The malign influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated. While it can scarcely be said that Burge was the only violently racist Chicago cop, he has become the very emblem of police brutality and unequal treatment for nonwhite people, and his actions have had widespread reverberations. During his many years on the force, Burge used barbaric methods, including electric shock, beatings, burnings, and mock executions, to c…
Not Geared Toward the Masses
Keywords Black Metropolis, black capitalism, long civil rights movement, desegregation, public history
The Men Who Lived Underground
Historical data on the use of force by police officers in the United States are unreliable or nonexistent. Available data, moreover, focus primarily on the behavior of patrolmen on the streets while neglecting violence by detectives during criminal investigations. Through an examination of a police torture scandal in Chicago from the early 1970s through the late 1990s, this article explains why violence during custodial interrogation often goes u…
Let Them Get Their Voices Out
Research Article| July 01 2017 Let Them Get Their Voices Out: The Death Row 10, Radical Abolitionists, and the Anti–Death Penalty Movement in Illinois (1996–2011) Andrew S. Baer Andrew S. Baer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2017) 11 (2): 129–160. https://doi.org/10.14321/jstudradi.11.2.0129 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
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Let Them Get Their Voices Out
Research Article| July 01 2017 Let Them Get Their Voices Out: The Death Row 10, Radical Abolitionists, and the Anti–Death Penalty Movement in Illinois (1996–2011) Andrew S. Baer Andrew S. Baer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2017) 11 (2): 129–160. https://doi.org/10.14321/jstudradi.11.2.0129 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
The Men Who Lived Underground
Historical data on the use of force by police officers in the United States are unreliable or nonexistent. Available data, moreover, focus primarily on the behavior of patrolmen on the streets while neglecting violence by detectives during criminal investigations. Through an examination of a police torture scandal in Chicago from the early 1970s through the late 1990s, this article explains why violence during custodial interrogation often goes u…
Beyond the Usual Beating
Chapter Two
This chapter adopts the perspective of detectives working at CPD Area 2 on the city's far South Side during the violent decade of the 1970s. The chapter argues that personal and professional pressures encouraged detectives to torture criminal suspects in high-profile cases.
Chapter Five
This chapter narrates the disclosure of the torture regime in 1989 and the formation of a coalition bent on stopping the abuse, locating victims, and firing Jon Burge. The chapter argues that extant mechanisms for police accountability in Chicago proved weak and inefficient, spurring the mobilization of veteran community activists.
Epilogue
This final section summarizes arguments made throughout the book and connects the Burge scandal and its aftermath to other contemporary movements for police accountability. The story ends with passage of a municipal reparations ordinance in Chicago in 2015 and the death of Jon Burge in 2018. The Chicago torture justice movement offers lessons for current social movements targeting abuses in the criminal justice system in the 21st century.
Chapter Four
Shifting attention away from the police, this chapter examines African American communities’ response to crime, police neglect, and police brutality in the post-civil rights era. The chapter argues that a network of individuals and organizations fought throughout the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to improve the local war on crime and protect the rights of both crime victims and criminal suspects.
Chapter One
This chapter places the Chicago police torture scandal in historical and geographic context, tracing the life and career of Jon Burge from 1947 to 1972. The chapter argues that a series of perceived crises threatening working-class whites in South Chicago after World War II influenced a cohort of detectives to adopt illegal interrogation methods in the 1970s.
Chapter Six
This chapter analyzes the social movement organizations that formed or mobilized in response to the Jon Burge police torture scandal. The chapter argues that coalitions of victims of police violence, their family members, lawyers, and community activists applied sustained pressure on local officials to win a series of important victories against the forces of police violence and cover-up.
Chapter Three
This chapter examines the most well-known of the Jon Burge police torture cases, that of convicted cop killer Andrew Wilson. Zooming-in to the winter of 1982, the chapter argues that public officials responding to a local emergency sanctioned the Burge torture regime and enabled its expansion.
Beyond the Usual Beating
"The malign influence of Chicago police commander Jon Burge cannot be overestimated. While it can scarcely be said that Burge was the only violently racist Chicago cop, he has become the very emblem of police brutality and unequal treatment for nonwhite people, and his actions have had widespread reverberations. During his many years on the force, Burge used barbaric methods, including electric shock, beatings, burnings, and mock executions, to c…
Not Geared Toward the Masses
Keywords Black Metropolis, black capitalism, long civil rights movement, desegregation, public history
Clarence Taylor. Fight the Power
Journal Article Clarence Taylor. Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City. Get access Clarence Taylor. Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. v, 309. Paper $24.00. Andrew S. Baer Andrew S. Baer University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on…
Emily M. Brooks. Gotham’s War within a War
The Politics of Safety
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Torture (8 works) · Human rights (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Torture, Ethics, and Law (5 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (5 works) · Accountability (4 works)