How we got to this point

The Highway Patrol has been at the center of a firestorm of criticism since videos of troopers behaving badly first surfaced.

• The leaders of the Department of Public Safety and the Highway Patrol resigned last month after a dashboard video showed a white trooper using a racial slur and threatening to kill a black suspect.

• Since then, more videos have surfaced, including two showing troopers using vehicles to hit black suspects fleeing on foot and a trooper driving his cruiser through the middle of a populated apartment complex.