Goss commended the department’s efforts toward transparency. However, he feels, it may be too little, too late.

“It’s still after the fact,” Goss said. “It’s almost as if you feel like you’re being called in so that you can help clean up a mess that was made.”

The most important thing right now, Goss said, is to focus on enacting change to prevent these situations from happening in the future.

“It’s difficult to tell your people that it’s OK because the police department has it under control, when the police department in the eyes of much of the community are the proprietors of such an event,” Goss said.

But the answer is not violence, Goss said.

“We have to let justice take its course,” he said. “We have some who want to see the best come out of a bad situation. We have others who are simply looking for a reason to act bad. And then we have some who are so angry that they want this to be just affirmation that every negative opinion that they have of our justice system is confirmed.