<p>Allegations of police abuse cost Chicago taxpayers more than $175 million through April 30, and $16.5 million is about to be added to the pile.</p><p>The City Council’s Finance Committee will be asked next week to approve two more settlements totaling that amount, the larger of which is tied to one of the ugliest and most notorious chapters in the history of the Chicago Police Department.</p><p>That $13 million settlement would go to Arnold Day, who claims he was beaten into confessing to a pair of murders he did not commit by detectives trained and supervised by former Area 2 Commander Jon Burge.</p><p>Day was 18 years old and living in Chicago when he was arrested in 1992 for the unrelated shooting deaths of Raphael Garcia and Jerrod Erving a year earlier. Day's 2019 lawsuit claimed he “falsely confessed” to shooting both victims to death after officers “choked” him and threatened to toss him out a window if he didn’t start “cooperating.”</p><p>“In fear for his life and as a result of the officer defendants’ unlawful coercion, Mr. Day agreed to cooperate,” according to the lawsuit.