Source: Liudmila Chernetska / Getty Police officers continue to violently abuse their power and continue to cost cities billions, with a "b", of dollars over the course of years. A Washington Post report stated that between 2012-2022, police departments settled near 40,000 officer misconduct claims that totaled $3.2 billion. Not only is the brutality criminal, immoral, and often bigoted, on a more superficial level, it's bad for cities and taxpayers.