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Course detail: Implicit Bias - Tactical Perception
Course Description:
The course examines bias that could create officer safety issues, civil liability, and best practices to increase professional law enforcement service. Law enforcement officers will receive an academic review of bias and how bias affects the decision-making process. The course provides scenarios and tools to improve law enforcement service in their communities.
Implicit Bias - Tactical Perception is a course designed to meet the requirements for Bias Based Policing as it is defined in KS22-4606, Complaint Procedures in KS22-4611, and Training in KS22-4610.
Core Competencies:
- Exhibiting fairness in policing while giving people a voice; and performing law enforcement duties with impartiality and the necessary level of transparency to sustain and strengthen public trust.
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Review relevant Kansas statutes and identify the legalrequirements related to bias and policing.
- Define identity traps, fast traps, and slow traps, andexplain how each can impact officer safety.
- Apply intervention strategies within guided exercises.
- Define stereotype, prejudice, discrimination, and racism.
- Participate in scenarios and identify how biases mayinfluence officer behavior.
- Understand how biases affect de-escalation, overreaction,and decision-making in the field.
- Explain the historical context of cultural stereotypes.
- Engage in a cultural awareness exercise to broaden perspective.
Who Should Attend:
- Municipal, County, and State Law Enforcement and Corrections Officials.
Methodologies:
- Lecture
- Exercises
- Group discussion
Course Requirements:
- 100% Attendance
Notice of Availability of the KLETC Annual Security and Fire Safety Report:
The University of Kansas has determined that the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) main campus in Hutchinson and its regional sites in Dodge City, Hays, and Parsons are separate campuses. This determination was made in consultation with the Department of Education. The report is available online at: https://civilrights.ku.edu/clery. The report contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); fire safety policies and procedures; programs to prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking; the procedures the institution will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred On-Campus; in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities; in Non-Campus buildings or property owned or controlled by the institution or a recognized student organization; and on Public Property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus. The report also contains fire statistics for any fires occurring in an On-Campus Student Housing Facility during the three most recent calendar years. A paper copy of the report will be provided upon request. If you would like to receive a paper copy, you can request that a copy be mailed to you by calling 785-864-6414 or emailing civilrights@ku.edu or arrange for pick-up at a KLETC location.
