FrontBurner Poll: What Are Your Priorities for the Next Police Chief? Tell us what you'd like to see, plus learn where to watch today's streaming panel with the candidates. By Matt Goodman Published in FrontBurner December 16, 2020 10:36 am Today, the public will get its first chance to hear from the seven candidates vying to be police chief for the city of Dallas. The panel will be streamed from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The city has used a series of surveys to solicit input from the public. About 4,500 took part in the first. Today’s public interview is an upgrade from the original plan, which included a series of panels with community groups as selected by the city manager. Those still happened yesterday, but were not broadcast publicly. Today’s panel will be; its moderator is Gary Peterson, the head of the search firm that helped identify the finalists. The city again used a survey to help guide the questioning, but that closed yesterday at noon.