The Baltimore Police Department is an expensive one: “The city of Baltimore has paid more than $5 million to settle police brutality cases in the last four years.” – PolicyMic

“Nearly all were never charged with a crime or had their charges dismissed.” – SOURCE: NPR

There’s also an article in the July Harper’s (not yet online for non-subscribers) entitled “Bleakness Stakes.”

The article cites some summaries of police-brutality cases recently settled by the city of Baltimore. Stories like this one, about an eighty-seven-year-old woman who was dragged and handcuffed as the officer said, “Bitch, you are no better than any of the old black bitches that I have locked up.” The settlement: $95,370.

And this one, “a traffic stop of a seventy-seven-year-old man … slammed to the ground, fracturing his arm, breaking his eyeglasses and cracking his dentures.” The settlement: $63,000.

“How common are such incidents of police use of force, both lethal and non-lethal, in the United States? Has there been progress in America? The indisputable reality is that we do not fully know,” said FBI Director James B. Comey in April.