This training focuses on the many ways implicit bias infilitrates an officers actions everyday and provides them with the skills necessary to reduce and manage their biases.
The 8 hour class is designed to help individuals:
- Understand that even well-intentioned people have biases;
- Understand how implicit biases impact on what we perceive/see and can (unless prevented) impact on what we do;
- Understand that fair and impartial policing produces just, safe, and effective policing; and,
- Use tools that help him/her (1) recognize his/her concious and implicit biases, and (2) reduce and manage biases.