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Police brutality costs lives and billions of dollars to tax payers

   As we are all trying to heal from the verdict of the Philando Castile case, it was reported that his family was given 3 million dollars in a settlement. We know that there is no amount of money that can bring him back it still makes me wonder if the courts and a jury found the shooting to be justified then what is the money for? I mean if you go to trial for stealing and a jury of your peers find you not guilty, the state doesn't give money to the person or establishment that accused you of stealing, right? This is just the latest settlement agreement awarded to a family where the officer was acquitted on all charges.  I found some information that really makes you think.    It was reported that Chicago alone has spent $642 million dollars on police brutality- related cases since 2004 that's roughly $53 million a year. This has in turn caused some public schools to be shut down and other city project budgets to be either tremendously cut or cut off. In 2014 Chicago PD was