This weekend, Tracy Shand is commemorating the one-year anniversary of her brother Leonard’s death. He was killed after 10 police officers from three Prince George’s County police departments fired at him last September.

“It is a shame that I have to come up here a year later,” said Shand, who spoke at a press conference Friday organized to present a series of police reform demands to County Executive Angela Alsobrooks. “When are you going to get it in your heads that we have to change?”

Shand spoke along with other family members of people killed or injured by Prince George’s County police in recent years. The family members, in partnership with community-based organizations and the ACLU of Maryland, presented a list of demands for immediate change — and rejected Alsobrooks’ chosen approach for reform, which is largely centered around the work of a Police Reform Work Group that is scheduled to present a report with recommended reforms in December.

“We don’t need a task force,” said activist Kema Hutchinson-Harris.

The press conference comes after a summer of protests against police brutality across the nation and in the D.C. region. Protesters have consistently rejected incremental reforms they say have thus far failed to curb police violence.

In Prince George’s County, activists — and nonwhite police officers themselves — have long complained about racism in the police force. In January of this year, a county police officer was charged with murder after he fatally shot William Green, a Black man who was handcuffed and sitting in the officer’s police cruiser when he was shot. In June, police chief Hank Stawinski resigned, hours after an expert witness report produced as part of an ongoing lawsuit showed that racism in the department went routinely unchecked by police leadership. Alsobrooks said Stawinski’s resignation “did not have anything to do with the report,” but came instead because she felt “it was time to move in a different direction in terms of leadership.” Hector Velez, who previously served as assistant police chief, has taken over department leadership on an interim basis.

At Friday’s press conference, family members demanded that the county executive fully unredact the expert witness report, which surfaced this summer as part of an ongoing racial discrimination lawsuit against the department. (Significant portions of the report were redacted because the police department only provided documents under the condition that they would be kept confidential.) The family members also demanded that the county “ensure justice for Leonard Shand and William Green, who were killed by PGPD officers.” In addition, they asked that the county revisit use-of-force complaints, make public a list of officers who have been barred from testifying because they lied to the court, disclose more information about how much the county has spent in legal fees in connection with ongoing litigation, and support demands from advocacy groups for statewide police reform.

In response to the demands, Alsobrooks’ spokesperson Gina Ford wrote in an email to DCist/WAMU that the matter of the expert witness report is “being handled by attorneys in court and we are confident that the litigation process will ensure fairness for all parties involved.” As far as the other demands, Ford said “the County Executive continues to look broadly at ways to improve the department, as the Police Reform Work Group continues its work.”

Alsobrooks announced this winter she would equip the police department’s patrol force with body cameras by the end of the year. Pressure to equip the force with body cameras intensified after the department disclosed that Michael Owen, the officer who killed William Green, was not wearing one at the time of the killing. This summer, Alsobrooks announced she would divert funding from a public safety training facility to a mental health facility, with the stated goal of offering alternatives to incarceration for people who struggle with mental health and addiction.

But the family members who spoke on Friday said they feel their pain has largely gone unacknowledged by county officials.

Josette Blocker, whose nephew Demonte Ward-Blake remains paralyzed after an encounter with Prince George’s County police last year, said she was still looking for officials in the county “to acknowledge our pain, to not just keep asking us to trust them without transparency.”

At the press conference, Blocker said she wanted to see Maryland repeal the law enforcement officer’s bill of rights and alter regulations that keep disciplinary records from becoming public.

While they asserted their demands, the family members also voiced a deep mistrust in officials’ willingness to provide the changes they sought.

Hutchinson-Harris said that complaints about police brutality in Prince George’s County have “fallen on deaf ears” for years.

“We tell our families’ stories again and again, to no avail,” said Hutchinson-Harris.