The problem with thinking that there is some sort of justice in monetary awards is that it is the taxpayers paying that $3 million. The police pay nothing. We continue to pay the police handsomely for this and other unreasonable abuses of authority. And families of murder victims never have “closure.”
You expect the transparency out of the police departments? NYC area people should remember Steve Anderson, the detective who turned in fellow officers for planting drugs on (mostly AA) people during their stop-and-frisk encounters in order to justify the practice and meet unofficial quotas, and Adrian Schoolcraft, the officer who secretly recorded internal conversations. Both have had their lives destroyed for daring to speak up and continue to be vilified.
Please, someone find me five white equivalents to Abner Louima, then we can discuss equal treatment.