What does taking a human life cost in Madison? Over a seven-year period in the 2010s, about $12.5 million.
That’s how much the city of Madison paid families to resolve four lawsuits from people injured or killed by police violence from 2012 to 2019.
Now, in the aftermath of Corey Ruiz’s death at the hands of a Madison police officer on July 22, interim Independent Monitor Aeramique Glass is requesting $1.63 million in emergency mutual aid funds — unspent independent police monitor dollars from the past five years that have since reverted to the city’s general fund…