On May 6, 2015, the Chicago City Council adopted legislation that formally sought to repair the damage wrought by a decades-long pattern of police torture. After months of careful negotiations between City Hall and the advocates for torture survivors, the council unanimously passed a package of laws providing for both financial and nonfinancial compensation, or reparations, for torture survivors and their families. While this package of laws limited financial compensation solely to the survivors of torture, it did extend nonfinancial compensation to them and their families in the form of free psychological counseling, job training, and college education, as well as inclusion of the torture cases in the public high school curriculum and a formal statement of remorse on behalf of the city. Drawing on the successful passage of this reparations legislation, this chapter identifies the intervention of the grassroots group Black People Against Police Torture (BPAPT) as pivotal in overcoming entrenched pro–law enforcement opposition to demands for accountability and redress. In particular, this article argues that the crucial contribution of BPAPT was its adoption of a strategic approach to international human rights law and institutions that prompted subsequent breakthroughs at the local, state, and federal level.

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获得赔偿的人权：黑人反对警察酷刑和 2015 年芝加哥赔偿条例的根源

2015 年 5 月 6 日，芝加哥市议会通过立法，正式寻求修复长达数十年的警察酷刑模式造成的损害。经过市政厅和酷刑幸存者倡导者几个月的仔细谈判，委员会一致通过了一揽子法律，为酷刑幸存者及其家人提供经济和非经济补偿或赔偿。虽然这套法律只对酷刑幸存者提供经济补偿，但它确实以免费心理咨询、职业培训和大学教育的形式向他们及其家人提供了非经济补偿，并将酷刑案件纳入了公立高中课程和代表城市的正式忏悔声明。借鉴这项赔偿立法的成功通过，本章确定基层组织黑人反对警察酷刑 (BPAPT) 的干预对于克服根深蒂固的亲执法反对问责和补救要求至关重要。特别是，本文认为 BPAPT 的关键贡献在于它对国际人权法和机构采用了一种战略方法，促使随后在地方、州和联邦层面取得突破。