A group of rogue Chicago cops known as the 'Midnight Crew' tortured dozens of people in the 70s and 80s -- and now the city is paying millions for it

Chicago will pay a total of up to $5.5 million to dozens of people tortured by the city's police in the 1970s and 1980s and make other reparations such as a memorial to torture victims under an ordinance approved by the city council on Wednesday. Police reparations of this magnitude are a first for America, according to the Guardian. "We are strong enough to say we were wrong," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said after the vote. "Chicago will finally confront its past and come to terms with it." The ordinan...