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Behind Cook County’s wrongful convictions, a sociologist finds entrenched police racism
Published 4 weeks, 2 days ago
Description
Cook County is known as the wrongful-conviction capital of America.
The National Registry of Exonerations lists 215 murder cases cleared here since 1989.
Brown University sociologist Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is out next week [5/19] with a book about them.
She writes that wrongful convictions stem from something more pernicious than shoddy law enforcement.
HOST: LANE