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Definitely the chief of police saying? office after we see such a terrible abuse of power and potential cover-up. as a sociologist, we know cultural change doesn't come from some ways getting rid of the leadership. there is rank and file racism in the police department, racism that i saw in a decade study of the cook county court system and it goes all the way into the prosecution's office where i started back in 1997 and began researching it. >> in a sociological study what are the manifestations of racism that you see? >> you know, again as a young person, prosecutors took me under their win...

The police department, racism that i saw in a decade study of the cook county court system and it goes all the way into the prosecution's office where i started back in 1997 and began researching it. >> in a sociological study what are the manifestations of racism that you see? >> you know, again as a young person, prosecutors took me under their wing. they refer to defendants as mopes which had all the stigmatizing meanings at the "n" word. they paraded victims' photos with a sense of one upmanship and even my supervisor had framed a visual of an evidence photo where a black boy had gotten sh...

And in that will environment, it became easy to lie or hide moments of egregious abuse by the police officers. they walked into the prosecutor's office and they often talked about defendants using blatant racism and prosecutors never corrected them. they looked the other way. and they looked the other way on shaded cases where police officers were altering you know arrest reports, making sure the amount of drugs seized hit the felony limit and no one turned, you know it, didn't make anybody's head turn. >> in terms of the overall thesis of your book crook county and the way that this is playin...