New training offered to local police to help eliminate ‘implicit bias’
Updated 12:49 PM;
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Guillermo Lopez of Intersekt Allliance speaks April 6, 2021, at a press conference about Northampton County s initiative to offer implicit bias training to local police departments.Rudy Miller | For lehighvalleylive.com
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Just because a police officer feels uncomfortable doesn’t mean that officer is unsafe.
That’s one lesson Guillermo Lopez hopes to impart to municipal police officers in Northampton County through a new implicit bias training program.
Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure announced the training at a press conference Tuesday.
It’s not the county’s place to provide policing, but the county is invested in providing human services, McClure said. The county already provides life-saving crisis intervention training to all first responders, including police officers. McClure feels implicit bias training is just as important.