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Commission and POST craft hate‑incident training for officers; debate continues over collecting non‑criminal incident data

California Commission on the State of Hate · May 20, 2024
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Summary

The commission described a POST‑developed training that encourages officers to treat bias incidents seriously, connect survivors to resources, and consider incident data, while commissioners raised privacy and civil‑liberties concerns about law enforcement collecting non‑criminal 'bias incident' records.

Commission staff and commissioners reviewed a multi‑day training developed with POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training) aimed at law enforcement line officers. The training focuses on why bias incidents matter even if they do not meet the criminal threshold, how officers can connect survivors to resources (including…

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