Recommendation 33.6

MPD should require the training currently provided on fair and impartial policing and procedural justice to be delivered to all officers in the Department.

Current:

All department members from the rank of police officer through the Chief of Police have received fair and impartial policing and procedural justice training. The executive command staff and division/district commanders received training from Dr. Lorie Fridell as well. Dr. Fridell also conducted train the trainer sessions for department members so that these trained members would be able to teach fair and impartial policing to the rest of the department. In 2013, Fair and Impartial Policing was presented at Risk Management Training for supervisors. In early 2016, the Police Academy also conducted a Fair and Impartial Policing refresher course (Memorandum 2015-258) and in May 2016 presented “Understanding Human Bias.” In 2016, procedural justice training was also presented at in-service training session #2.

The department also requires all recruit officers to complete training in fair and impartial policing and procedural justice. During recruit academy training, all police recruits receive eight hours of cultural competency, eight hours of ethics and four hours of training specific to fair and impartial policing in addition to the State of Wisconsin requirements.

The department also has a Fair and Impartial Policing stand-alone policy to reaffirm the department's commitment to fair and impartial policing, to clarify the circumstances in which officers can consider race, color, ethnicity, national origin, economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, sex and religion when making law enforcement decisions, and to reinforce procedures that serve to ensure the public we are providing service and enforcing laws in an equitable way.