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of Justice. The program is organized through a research partnership that includes John Jay College, the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, The Center for Policing Equity at UCLA, and the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. The $4.75 million grant-funded partnership with criminal justice experts is part of the Department of Justice’s ongoing commitment to strengthening the relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve. The programwill invest in training, evidence- based strategies, policy development, and research to combat distrust and mend relationships between law enforcement and the community. The overall goal of the project is to develop and implement intervention strategies aimed at enhancing procedural justice, reducing implicit bias, and encouraging reconciliation processes. The evidence gathered in the three-year pilot program from the six cities will be analyzed and will provide the foundation for a similar program nationwide. The National Initiative program focuses on the following three pillars to help improve relationships and increase trust between the Police Department and the community. Racial reconciliation facilitates frank conversations between minority communities and law enforcement that allow them to address historic tensions, grievances, and misconceptions between them and reset relationships. Procedural justice focuses on how the characteristics of law enforcement interactions with the public shape the public’s views of the police, their willingness to obey the law, and actual crime rates. Implicit bias focuses on how largely unconscious psychological processes can shape authorities’ actions and lead to racially disparate outcomes even where actual racism is not present. In 2015 and through August 2016, the Fort Worth Police Department held site visits with National Initiative representatives and conducted training and workshops covering the following topics.
Procedural Justice Training Classes Implicit Bias Training Classes Climate Assessment and Attitude Behavior Matching The National Justice Database (NJD) Policies and Practices Review Reconciliation and Truth-Telling Process Unique Interventions Community Surveys
National Initiative training is mandatory for all police personnel, training is provided to police recruits before they graduate the police academy, and tenets are included on promotional exams. Fort Worth Police Department National Initiative Implementation Plan The FWPD is committed to working with representatives from the National Initiative project to implement key recommendations and strategies to ensure the mission is accomplished.
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