D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced that his office will survey the Metropolitan Police Department’s practices around interacting with children and potentially recommend changes after several well-publicized incidents involving D.C. police and black children.

“This is an urgent priority for the Office of the Attorney General. In coordination with the Chief and the Mayor’s office, we are moving quickly to determine a timeline to assess MPD’s current practices and reach out to experts in the District and across the country,” an OAG spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

On Tuesday, FOX 5 surfaced a video showing a police officer chasing a distraught 9-year-old boy in circles, grabbing and then handcuffing him. Racine said in the press release that the video is “obviously concerning.”

Both MPD and the boy’s mother said that the interaction started when the boy was leaning against a car. “His use of force was unnecessary. My son was not a threat. He was not commiting a crime. He was not harming anyone,” Autumn Drayton told reporter Evan Lambert.

MPD declined to provide a copy of the incident report.

“Whenever you have an incident like this and it upsets the community, it upsets us,” Police Chief Peter Newsham told the outlet, which has reported that the officer involved is under investigation. “We’ll take a close look at it and see if we can make some changes.”

But this is only the latest in a series of interactions captured by bystanders that have drawn scrutiny.

In December, seven police officers stopped and frisked three young black boys in Capitol Hill. “I believe other people, other children would not be treated that way,” neighborhood resident Maurice Cook told officers at an ANC meeting the following month.

In February, police detained a group of black children outside the Petworth Metro station for at least 50 minutes. “It just didn’t seem right. It just obviously felt wrong to me,” Antolina Padua told DCist at the time.

And at the end of March, widely circulated footage showed officers handcuffing a ten-year-old boy and leading him away in the wake of an armed robbery. Police said that the boy was released to his mother’s custody without making an immediate arrest. MPD’s official policy is that officers must contact the watch commander of Youth and Family Services before arresting a minor who is 12 or younger; the watch commander then decides whether and when to arrest the child.

Four days later, Racine took the somewhat extraordinary step of releasing a press release exonerating the boy; the office was required to get a court order to comment on a case involving a child. “He is totally innocent,” the statement read. It also said the officers involved “acted in accordance with MPD policies and procedures.”

At-large Councilmember Robert White called such arrests “appalling and unacceptable” and said that policy changes are necessary. “We must never be so numb to bias that we forget these are children and that these actions cause permanent harm to these kids and undercut effective policing,” he wrote on Facebook Wednesday.

The OAG’s office will survey “best practices” around the country and compare them to MPD’s policies. Then it will “recommend what changes, if any, should be made to the manner in which police officers are trained on the proper way to interact with children,” according to the release. It’s unclear, however, what the timeline for the review will be, if the community will be engaged, or how the recommendations would be enacted. A spokesperson said the attorney general was traveling and unable to comment, and she couldn’t give additional details about what the effort will entail.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and MPD have accepted that course of action, according to Racine’s office. In speaking to reporters, Bowser described a recent meeting with Racine as “fine.” The mayor said that she “let the attorney general know that MPD is already looking at how to handle very young people who may be involved with police.” In response to a FOX 5 reporter’s repeated questions on Tuesday about the most recent incident and the city’s policies, Bowser would only say that “each case is different.”

Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, who chairs the D.C. Council’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, released a letter Wednesday saying he would partner with Racine’s office on its review of MPD’s practices and policies, and introduce legislation if he deemed it necessary.

“I find it difficult to express in a letter how disturbed I feel—how difficult it is to capture my visceral reaction to a small, young African-American boy screaming as he struggles against handcuffs in the middle of a street with other children and adults watching and recording,” Allen writes in the letter. “Even if the officers involved followed MPD policies and protocols, the response was individually and systemically unacceptable.”