of all, on the cover, the torture machine, that was electric shock box, the notorious commander jon burgend his men used on many african-american suspects o over that 20-year period that you just mentioned. but also the torture machine refers to chicago's m machine, e notorious political machine, often known as the daily machine, and the democratic machine here in the city, which also only covered it up, but was i involved at the h highest lelevels of ththe police depepat anand, yes, the statate's attors office when richard m daley was the states attorney of cook countyty were involved inn thiss conspiracy, the scandal that has gone on for so many decades in thisis city. juan: flint, first, i want to congratulate you on the book. it is a riveting account come almost a forensic analysis of decades of collusion between judges, politicians, prosecutors, and the police to basically engaged in systemic human rights violations. but you start the book with an incident that for many young -- it might be part of history, but not often covered history. you make the statement that the killing of fre