Course detail: Implicit Bias - Tactical Perception Train-the-Trainer

The goal of this course is to teach the trainers how to engage police officers in critical thought and discussion about contemporary mechanisms of bias regarding race, gender, sexuality, and other identities within the context of law enforcement, centering on identity traps and drawing on the scholarship of implicit bias and self-threats. Identity traps allow us to foreground the importance of the situation in predicting outcomes, and to move away from the framing of the problem of race in policing as one of prejudice. We will also pay attention to the underlying historical elements of identity traps and the implications they have for officers' lived realities. 

Learning Objectives 

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
  • Instruct law enforcement officers and professionals on the concepts and applications of implicit bias and tactical perception,  
  • Define key concepts including identity traps, fast traps, and slow traps, 
  • Develop their own examples of fast and slow traps,
  • Analyze historically significant events that have impacted fast and slow traps, 
  • Define and distinguish between the concepts of stereotype, prejudice, discrimination, and racism, and
  • Explain how identity traps can interfere with procedural justice.

Training is designed in an adult learning format to encourage small and big group discussions, tabletop scenarios, and exercises designed to surface biases and intervention strategies.

Who Should Attend: Law Enforcement


Course Requirements: 100% Attendance and participation

Fitness Level Necessary for Successful Completion: Active


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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.

 

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 Session Information: LE26111F

Schedule: Every day, starting on 11/10/25 and ending on 11/13/25
Times: 08:00am-05:00pm CST
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Facility Detail

Olathe Health Education Center
21201 W. 152nd St.
Olathe, KS 66061