. >> reporter: so-called biking while black tickets have dropped according to the chair frank redrick but only because the chief is using discretion to cut down on ticket statistics. >> tampa is one of the largest cities of its size that has no ameaningful community oversight of policing. >> reporter: tampa for justice and naacp are calling for an initiative to bring a investigative panel one that citizens could appeal to directly. a panel that would have its own budget and staff. results. and what we are seeing is that they need to be the beginning into local naacp president benny small criticized the january, largely appointed by bob buckhorn. he is headed to washington, d.c. friday. >> i have been invited by the united states statusy vile rights to come up and be part of a national panel that will be discussing ticketing. >> reporter: the group must raise more than 21,000 signatures by july's end to get the initiative on the ballot. as tampa waits for a department of justice report on tampa's bik ticketing. tampa, i'm carson chambers, abc action news. >> still to come, changing a f