Backfire? Activists now protest Dallas PD oversight board they demanded

In a city where activists fought for a community oversight board, some are now claiming that the board they helped create is not doing the job they were expected to do. ….

Several of the activists who lobbied the Dallas City Council for years to form a stronger oversight board with staff to conduct investigations verbally attacked the board for its work, or lack there of. Activist Tamara Neal said:

“You have forgotten why you exist. We feel that the process is too political and politicized and we’re done.”

Activist Changa Higgins said that the chairman of the oversight board meets frequently with the police chief but claims that he has failed to create a promised advisory committee with outside subject matter experts. Higgins added:

“When you don’t have a technical advisory component, you only can talk to the police department.”