There are also a lot of people who do not think that simply having a more diverse police force is the answer and think that hiring more police into a broken system is not the solution. The CPD has paid half a billion dollars in police brutality cases in the last 11 years – that averages to over $45 million per year. Black Youth Project 100 summed it up perfectly: “…no city should spend 40% of its budget on policing our lives while systematically destroying our communities.” The Chicago Teachers Union joined a coalition of civic rights organizations at the Black Friday protests on Michigan Avenue, demanding an independent, elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) instead of the Police Accountability Task Force that Mayor Emanuel has promised. This is especially urgent in light of the fact that Emanuel already had such a task force two years ago and simply shelved its report, and now new evidence has linked Van Dyke to another cover-up of a police murder years ago.