Mandate a Rigorous Implicit Bias and Community Interaction Training, in Police Academies and Departments Nationwide

As Americans, we have a responsibility to build inclusive communities where families thrive and where compassion, not fear, is the core value.
Law-enforcement recruits should be challenged to identify key police decisions and scenarios that are at greatest risk of manifesting bias—such as traffic stops, consent searches, reasonable suspicion to frisk, and other procedures—and then reflect on the potential impact of implicit bias on their perceptions and behaviors in those scenarios. Furthermore, seasoned officers should be similarly challenged. Training recommendations do not reduce bias; rather, they raise consciousness about them. Research has suggested that by making one aware of unconscious biases, these malleable biases can be reduced.