“Substantial change has occurred. When we were going through the 100 nights plus of protest, Chief Hall did, she enacted some immediate things right away,” Hopkins said.
Among those changes was a duty to intervene policy that punishes officers who do not speak up about misconduct they witness, a policy against the use of tear gas on peaceful protestors and a reinforced policy against the use of chokeholds on suspects.
Tonya McClary is the Dallas police monitor and runs the office of police oversight.
“I m getting the sense that the police department is trying to be more transparent,” McClary said.
She attended many of the demonstrations and found public outrage with the Floyd video and the call for social justice change was stronger than what she had ever seen before.