Police Doctorate - New Classes to Discover

From: J Birch <Birch403@outlook.com> Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020, 12:30 AM To: justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca; chris.wills@illinois.gov; Chrystia.Freeland@parl.gc.ca; dujarric@un.org; news@skynews.com; Jagmeet.Singh@parl.gc.ca; tips@GlobalTVBC.com; GlobalOttawa@globalnews.ca; Secretary@HHS.gov; contact.nbcnews@nbcuni.com; david.penberthy@news.com.au; media@gatesfoundation.org; doug.fordco@pc.ola.org; info@bnn.ca; jedmiston@nationalpost.com; dir_enq@cso.gov.hk; nytnews@nytimes.com; Sky.Today; contactus@newfoundlandlabrador.com Subject: Police Doctorate - New classes to consider (Opinion)

Hey Everyone, Police like all first responders require the best training to ensure that they are more skilled at saving life than taking it. They will learn introspection in relation to outward action and self identify personal and procedural bias and act accordingly through community involvement and change. Officers need to be the front lines of justice and act justly for the communities they serve and this can only be done through education and understanding to limit any negative sides to the community and the judicial system. As follows are recommendations for new classes and a new way of looking at police training that includes a full tenure in university with medical and phycology training to allow officers the tools they need to uphold justice: - Introduction to justice - An overview course on the history of Justice from its onset to each human rights and civil rights challenge and the courage it took to stand. They would review each struggle for human rights and learn its impact on our past, how it affects our present and how to improve our impact on the future. - De-escalation tactics and restraint - This course would be designed to test the officers patience and stress level and work with them to increase tolerance for irritation or mental and emotional fatigue. It would be designed in a gym setting to allow the officer the ability to react under pressure with physical exertion and unknown elements to allow the officer to overcome them one at a time without letting it overwhelm them. This will be a gradual course that will temper patience and resiliency in the face of adversity and unknown quantities to allow them clarity of focus amid whatever situation occurs. -This physical and mental course would allow the officer to work out stress in calmer ways to provide them additional outlets and methods to dispassionately serve the community no matter the days events. Furthermore, as an adverse reaction this physical component will allow you to teach breathing techniques. This will allow you to not only increase endurance but allow the officer to stay calm while being active to control the spike of adrenaline within their bodies and allow them to act as dispassionately as possible within the heat of the moment. (Confirm the best method with doctors but a combination of physical and mental conditioning in relation to personal de-escalation can help improve effectiveness and allow for calmer reactions.)

Language / Communications - Each officer would learn multiple languages or additional ones if already multilingual to allow them more ways to communicate with their communities. This way there are officers who not only speak the main language in their communities but also can establish communication channels with new residents as well. (Each language spoken gives them a pay bump to provide incentive to learn it when offered) They would continuously upgrade these skills as new languages and dialects are added to our collective expression to ensure that communication is always at the forefront of Justice. This class would also review different methods of communication in relation to different scenarios and allow you to plan for different scenarios to always include diplomacy wherever possible.

Emergency Medical Responder Certification - Every officer would be certified in tier 1 level trauma care for stabilization on scene and to assist officers on scene of injury. They would each be assigned a medical cache of supplies for their cruiser and be able to stabilize a patient if they are first on the scene. This way if force is used in any way after exhaustive diplomatic approaches then the officer can immediately stabilize the accused with emergency medical training.

Cultural History Within The Community - This class would change depending on the city of operation and would be tailored to review the history of city culture so that the police will know their communities and the history of the people that built them. This would review the specific challenges faced by those communities and cities and better prepare police to respond to those communities. it would also look at personal cultural histories within the officers culture so they can highlight quiet bias within their own consciousness and overcome it in everyday life. This class would be a journey from inward introspection to outward action and the needs for dispassionate dialogue amid danger.

How to Safely Subdue - This class would be a physical and classroom study to review the specific safe handling procedures during arrest. This will include areas medically off limits, how to hold a prisoner and how and when to place them in handcuffs. They would review safe positions and how to assist the accused into and out of the vehicle and the station to ensure their health and safety is paramount. Interaction and investigation - This would be designed to review communication with communities and what factors allow you to question, detain or search an individual. They would review different scenarios and different people in various degrees of escalation to find ways to stay patient and to de-escalate a situation. This will advise you what to look for of suspicious natures without allowing bias to direct the flow of the investigation. This will allow you a rubric of who, how and when to approach or stop a citizen. This will ensure that we reduce racial profiling by ensuring the rules used in "Random" stops are fair for all citizens. It will also allow the officers of any stage to spot irregularities in procedure and report it to the civilian oversight committee. This committee would look at ways to improve the force in ways that benefit society, the community and the officer. To amend any policy or procedure deemed to no longer promote safe situations or equality to ensure we are protecting and supporting our communities and officers. Investigative Bias - This course reviews any potential areas where the administration of Justice or the case can become muddled by bias. This will allow an officer to better spot false reports that are sent due to bias and allows them to assess the situation for bias and act in the best interests of society and the judicial system. This would review cases of mistaken or false identifications, incarcerations and the impact that such bias can have. It would review the effect on society, police and the person and explore ways to recognize and combat this bias immediately in the field to ensure no bias propegates throughout the interaction. This allows the officer to better respond to witnesses or complainants to ensure that police uphold judicial equality. This way the police cannot be manipulated into a situation caused by racially motivated bias.

Psychology/ Sociology -This course would certify officers in psychology and sociology to better understand the communities and the people they serve. This will allow officers to be trauma responders and better assist victims in their initial time of need. They would also be skilled in humane questioning techniques to ensure safety and effectiveness of questioning periods. This will also allow them the ability to self analyze their own actions to better spot unintended bias within their own daily actions and allow them a more robust skillset to deal with the mental fatigue and consequences that can come with first responder jobs. Driving - this would be a driving course specifically tailored to mitigating potential civilian casualties in a high speed chases. This will train the officers in defensive driving techniques in relation to police pursuits and allow them to respond with the best interests of the surrounding community. They would be trained in ambidextrous driving in case of injury to one arm and would also review city streets to direct the chase if possible to less populated or deserted sections of the city.

Community Interaction and outreach - This course is designed to estabilish different outreach options that each precinct will have access too. This includes procedures for homeless meals and emergency supplies, referral programs and education grants. They would review options for community involvement like food drives, potlucks, community repair and revitalization as well as ways to support the community without disturbing the community. This course would also explore alternative options to arrest including rebailitation, restiution or even community service for offences that do not harm person or property (possession of marijuana, skateboarding, parking infractions, permit lapses etc. This will allow officers to give communities more options in relation to judicial operation and ensures that there are more opportunities for social and legal justice. If officers identify a trend that causes inequality in the community or the city then they would escalate the incident and any relevant data and after community deliberations propose solutions that would work for that community. These would be then reviewed and acted upon accordingly or reviewed further in case of other factors that would improve the solution for all involved. They would communicate with their communities and organize town halls in case of incidents, updates or emergencies and help organize humanitarian efforts, evacuations at the local level and even reform opportunities to better the community they live and work in.

Patience and personal mental health - This course would be designed to assist the officer in dealing with the stresses of first responders. This would allow the officer to recognize days that they need to recuperate to best serve their communities. If there are days where they are unable to work through a bad case or event they need to recognize that its necessary for rest. They will learn that mental health days will help them better prepare and respond to their communities and ensure that they do not carry one case into another. This would identify PTSD symptoms as well as anxiety attacks and would train them in procedures to follow in case of such a need or incident so that we protect them and the community from the trauma of their day. Transparency and morality- This course would be to review the importance of morality within the force and the need for public transparency and judicial accountability. This would advise on escalation procedures in case of personal or procedural bias and give them options to resolve said conflicts when they arise. This will allow them to review how to respond to issues of morality in relation to personal interactions and in transparency related investigations. The judicial system must be an open, fair and transparent for society or it ceases to become an institution or Justice but one of injustice. Police and our courts must be accountable to the people that they serve and unless this is true of each judicial interaction then we have failed in our duty to uphold that system of justice. This is why each officer would be aware of how to be transparent in their dealings but how to shed light on inequality if discovered. This includes the dangers of "Blue Blindness" where police fail to see the bias within one another and in turn are blind to its damage on society and our people. This will highlight those morality traps that can at times be glaring but also subtle. The class would be able to recognize the subtlety of racism and inequality to prevent it within themselves and their peers so that each officer upholds those standards for themselves and the public at large. The Curriculum would also include training for defenses and other requisite classes but the above or other bias related courses must be included with medical and phycological training to ensure our officers are a shield more so then a sword. We also must include bias related courses in all doctorates of our society to ensure that each industry reviews bias at all levels. 　

Stay Safe, Stay Sanitized and Stay Supportive,

John Ames Birch

@johneames2