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What are some steps we can take to reduce implicit biases and their impact on a societal level?
How to Reduce Implicit Bias
- Focus on seeing people as individuals.
- Work on consciously changing your stereotypes.
- Take time to pause and reflect.
- Adjust your perspective.
- Increase your exposure.
- Practice mindfulness.
How can police officers improve recruitment and selection?
6 key steps to improve police recruitment and retention
- Ensure every cop is a recruiter.
- Select the best recruitment officer.
- Project the right image.
- Maintain communication with applicants during the recruitment process.
- Recruit where good candidates hang out.
- Recognize that recruitment drives retention.
- Final thoughts.
Why is unconscious training biased?
Unconscious bias training helps make people aware that unconscious bias exists and helps them take steps to reduce the likelihood that bias will impact their decisions. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has found that training helps raise awareness that unconscious bias exists.
What can cause a recruiter or hiring manager to have an affinity bias?
Thinking that someone is qualified for a role because you share the same professional qualifications, or have worked at similar companies. Believing that someone is a ‘good fit’ for your team because you are of a similar age or socioeconomic background.
Why is the recruitment of qualified personnel so important to police agencies?
The hiring and testing process of becoming a police officer is one of the most important functions to the future of any agency. This process is the primary means for identifying which applicants are the most suitable for police work and which applicants represent potential liabilities to the agency.
What is the purpose of police recruitment?
This can be a long process, but the goal is to identify candidates who are competent, fit and dedicated to the ideology of the police station.
How do you prevent unconscious bias?
10 ways to mitigate against unconscious bias at your company
- Make sure employees understand stereotyping, the foundation for bias.
- Set expectations.
- Be transparent about your hiring and promotion process.
- Make leaders responsible.
- Have clear criteria for evaluating qualifications and performance.
- Promote dialogue.
How can you prevent unconscious bias in the workplace?
Simply being aware of unconscious bias can immediately start to reduce our reliance on generalizations or stereotypes. Establish clear criteria in advance of making decisions (hiring, promotion, etc.) so that bias gets taken out of the decision-making process. Hold decision-makers accountable, including yourself.
Will implicit bias training change what police officers do?
Now a majority do, with New Jersey joining the list late last month. We MUST address the systemic and implicit biases that too often impact relations between law enforcement and communities. But despite the boom in implicit bias training, there has been little real-life research into whether it actually changes what police officers do on the job.
Why is it important to manage biases in policing?
Policing based on stereotypes or biases can make police unsafe. It is easier to manage implicit biases than to change them. Implicit biases may lead officers to be overvigilant — that is, act aggressively when someone is not a threat.
How can we raise awareness of implicit bias in the workplace?
That’s why awareness and training needs to start with supervisors—how it can affect themselves as well as their officers and the entire department. The IAT (Implicit Association Test) is another mechanism that can help raise awareness of implicit bias.
How to alleviate the growing public pressure toward the policing community?
Thus, to alleviate the growing public pressure toward the policing community, it is imperative that officers of all ranks are able to have a working knowledge of how to respond to the following questions: What exactly is implicit bias? What can police officers do to address implicit bias?