WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF OFFICIAL RACISM? ‘Crook County’ Author: Judicial System Stacked Against Blacks, Latinos.

Van Cleve said that when she wrote the book, “I wrote in fear. I researched it in fear… and it was mostly because as one of the only people of color in this court system, in this setting where mostly the prosecutors and judges were white and all the defendants were people of color, the idea that I could collect data on how people were being racially abused and then actually go and tell that publically was quite intimidating,” she said. “So I think it was a journey for me to reflect on what I was willing to put forth. And I hope that those stories come forth in the book.”

Yet in “Crook County,” Van Cleve documents how minority defendants in Chicago were referred to as “Mopes,” a term with the same derogatory intent as the N-word. Fabricated police reports were overlooked.

She’s a brave woman, taking on the Chicago judicial machine by herself.