evidence: Experts told us that change was coming, complete with a slate of acronymed initiatives and laws to demolish the code of silence engrained in police culture. Programs like the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement Project (ABLE) and New Orleans’ Ethical Policing Is Courageous (EPIC) trained officers on how to police each other and prevent misconduct in real time. Even after the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act fizzled in Congress, there was hope for the Special Inspector General for Law Enforcement Act — a bill that would, in part, create a federal hotline to field anonymous misconduct complaints from local, state and federal law enforcement officers. [...] In his view, little has changed. He often follows up our conversations by texting me news clippings like this one chronicling police corruption, followed by an eyeroll emoji.