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Traced back to the police custody death of freddie gray. ten days ago. the allegations of police brutality in baltimore are not new. i want you to look at statistics if you could. the past four years alone the city of baltimore settled more than 100 police brutality cases to the tune of more than $6 million. talking about lawsuits filed by people with broken bones and shattered faces, they say at the hands of baltimore police. the mayor says that she is actually proud of the figures because she says that these are fewer, fewer instances of lawsuits, since she took office. mark dug up the resea...

Angeles for this very issue? >> well, we did an ap tolls apples comparison and looked at dallas and miami-dade county. dallas paid the same amount of money in the same time period but for 26 lawsuits. baltimore's was 102 for the same amount of money. the key is, the state of maryland has a local government tort claims act that caps damages at 200 thpds per case. that lalas saved baltimore taxpayers millions of dollars. >> mark, it's a difficult -- >> unfair to compare baltimore to new york city. >> i think only in percentage and certainly not in the numbers it would be crazy to do so. great re...