REPORT OF THE OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ADVISORY GROUP ON LAW
ENFORCEMENT TRAINING
April 29, 2015
I recommend reading the report Ohio
Attorney General Michael DeWine released today by his Advisory Group on Law
Enforcement Training Group at http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Briefing-Room/News-Releases/OPOTA/2015-LETAG-Report-Web-and-Press-Release.aspx
. Recommendations coming from the subcommittee on community relations are a
refreshing response to the problem of police violence in communities of color,
summarized as follows at p. 6:
After
reviewing currently available training, the Community Relations Subcommittee
felt that
additional
training on subjects such as implicit bias and procedural justice should be
developed and offered to all officers in Ohio. The Subcommittee, as well as the
full Advisory Group, spent considerable time discussing police relations in
Ohio's African American communities. Training initiatives should not ignore
this critical component. In addition to
the training review, this subcommittee discussed the need for every agency to
become more active in their community by fostering programs that increase
positive, non-enforcement related, police-community interactions (my
emphasis).
I’m
encouraged to see this move beyond the mindset of discipline, punishment and
surveillance to bridge the dehumanization that “broken windows” law enforcement
has reinforced. Love and peace, hal
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