WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Denying accused persons access to lawyers is an everyday occurrence in the Chicago Police Department (CPD) practice, attorney Richard Dvorak told Sputnik on Wednesday in response to reports about the police’s Homan Square interrogation black site.
“This is an unfortunate everyday occurrence of the Chicago PD [Police Department] refusing accused [persons] lawyers in Chicago,” Dvorak said. “I have represented those who have denied access to lawyers, and this case is definitely a denial of access to lawyers, but this is nothing particularly new in Chicago.”
Dvorak said such treatment of accused persons is typical in police departments across Chicago.
However, Dvorak added that the term “black site” does not represents such interrogation places correctly, because they are not like the black sites most often used to describe US Central Intelligence Agency interrogation sites.
CPD previously told Sputnik that they abide by all laws, rules and regulations pertaining to interrogations of the accused.
Amnesty International has called for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to launch an investigation into the black site case.
CPD reported it made 167,541 arrests in 2010.
