The Baltimore City Board of Estimates is scheduled to vote Wednesday on paying more than $1 million to settle police misconduct complaints.

The city is also now on the hook for another $2.3 million to a man who was falsely arrested of rape.

The settlements beg the question, how much money does City Hall have to pay out before police conduct changes?

"If Baltimore City had to spend real money in real time, they will very quickly resolve this police-brutality issue," attorney A. Dwight Pettit said on Sept. 9, 2015.

Cases of Baltimore police brutality and misconduct are costing taxpayers millions.

"Just the fact you have to make any payments shows that we still have a long ways to go to improving the relations between the police and the public," Baltimore City Councilman Brandon Scott said.

The biggest chunk of the $1.1 million -- $600,000 -- will go to the family of Tyrone West, who died in police custody after a traffic stop in July 2013.

"But this is why some of the council members, including myself, have been pushing to see how we can make changes in policy? How we are going to make these things aren't happening in the future?" Scott said.

Meanwhile, it appears that the city will have to shell out another $2.3 million in a lawsuit brought in federal court. Marlow Humbert sued and won for false arrest in a 2008 rape case in Charles Village. The lawsuit was against a previous administration, but the current administration will have to deal with the payout.

The Board of Estimates will also vote on whether to pay Shaun Mouzon $400,000. According to board minutes, police shot Mouzon several times as he ignored their attempts to be pulled over for carrying a suspected firearm.

All of these complaints happened before the U.S. Department of Justice consent decree was completed, designed to better train and curb abuse.

The City Council has no authority over Police Department policy, but can hold its leadership accountable.

"What we can do is apply the pressure to make sure we are policing better and we have a better-operating Police Department," Scott said.

The settlements also signal a trend of cases that are being brought in federal court, where there are no caps on awards.