The socio-political milieu in 1991 in Chicago was becoming tough on crime, similarly to New York during the Central Park Five case. Chicago in the 1990s was experiencing high crime rates and gang-related violence. Mayor Daley, was trying to address crime and eliminate gang crimes throughout the city. The 1990s in Chicago were enduring a serious crime wave and the 1990s ended up being the bloodiest years in Chicago’s history. One Chicago alderman classified 1990 as a year undergoing a “murder epidemic.” The city of Chicago was attempting to address its crime problem by hiring two-thousand additional police officers to patrol neighborhoods “around-the-clock.” Police officers began arresting people who appeared to be partaking in crimes such as drug trafficking and prostitution without seeing them commit a crime. …show more content…
False confessions can be enough to prosecute and convict people. False confessions have a detrimental effect on countless people and unfortunately, they are not as uncommon as people generally believe. This case can enlighten people today and allow them to discover how common false confessions are and how they are often obtained. Learning this helps the public to realize that innocent people do confess to crimes they did not commit and shows that maybe law enforcement needs to adjust some of their interrogation techniques. This case impacts people today because it shows the need for videotaped confessions to safeguard suspects from police coercion and misconduct. The Dixmoor five have states that law enforcement officials physically abused and threatened them during interrogations. Physical and emotional abuse by law enforcement resulted in the false confessions of the Dixmoor Five. This revelation allows people today to see that law enforcement does not always act in an ethical manner and this can result in false