Hames-García's research considers the attitudes, motivations, and experiences of people engaged with overseeing local law enforcement. In addition to extensive archival data, he draws from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with officials (independent auditors, internal affairs investigators, city bureaucrats, and local politicians), volunteers (local oversight board members), and other interested community members (activists, attorneys, journalists, and family and survivors of police violence) who seek to hold police and sheriff’s departments transparent and accountable. He also has a project in the works that will be a law review article surveying the characterization of Latines in anticarceral scholarship.