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  • Recognizing Implicit Bias 200210-RIB-POST-002
     February 10, 2020
     8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Tuition is paid for by the POST Innovative Grant Program. Students must be active POST certified personnel to qualify for grant funding.


Background

Research has shown us that we all have deep unseen biases that include racial bias. Consider the study conducted by the Urban Institute; researchers sent actors with similar financial credentials to the same real estate or rental offices to ask about buying or renting a home or apartment. In the end, no matter where they were sent, the actors of color were shown fewer homes and offered fewer discounts on rent or mortgages than those who were white.  The results even surprised some of the actors of color; they felt they had been treated politely, even warmly.

Law enforcement personnel, already predisposed to cynicism, are extremely susceptible to deep and even unknown biases.  One cannot expect a person to spend a career that is focused on looking for the bad in people to see the world with objective clarity.  Moreover, based on this job, it is human nature for law enforcement personnel to instantly judge others.  The officer safety aspect of quick judgements is a legitimate concern, but upon the backdrop of unrealized selective treatment as revealed in the racial/real estate study, it is hard to believe that law enforcement personnel would naturally treat people with complete equality.

According to TrustandJustice.org, research suggests that biased associations can be gradually unlearned and replaced with nonbiased ones. Perhaps even more encouragingly, one can reduce the influence of implicit bias simply by changing the context in which an interaction takes place. Mitigation strategies begin with sincere awareness of biases, and then require behavioral shifts to “unlearn” them.  Only through outcome-based training that secures the affective buy-in of law enforcement personnel can we hope to create equitable policing services.


Executive Summary

Recognizing Implicit Bias is made up of student-centered learning activities that allow attendees to safely understand their own biases with a scientific approach.  The curriculum design avoids an accusatory tone and focuses on objective facts revealed directly to each student by their own in-class discovery.  Students learn the baseline benevolent affective disposition needed to effectively combat implicit bias. Next, they learn how to recognize their own biases and develop strategies to mitigate them or eliminate them altogether. Finally, students identify micro-aggressions and slights and develop specific proactive strategies to respond to them correctly.

This is highly interactive course designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to recognize their own implicit biases and how to mitigate them.  Working in groups, students create a self-test for their own implicit bias and at least 5 strategies to mitigate those biases.

Objectives:

  1. Identify the baseline benevolent affective disposition needed to effectively combat implicit bias
  2. Explain how to recognize personal biases
  3. Develop strategies to mitigate or eliminate biases
  4. Identify slights/micro-aggressions and effective strategies to respond to them

Course Information

Course Length: 1 day (8 hours)
Certification: California Board of State and Community Corrections (STC)
Cost/Tuition: $0 for POST reimbursable agencies / $125
Max Class Size: 30 Students
Prerequisites: None
Recommended For: First responders and supervisors or any public servant in any capacity.


 

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