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From: <br />Jade Falcon <br />To: <br />PublicComment <br />Subject: <br />Re: Comment for Public Record: June 22, 2020 <br />Date: <br />Monday, June 22, 2020 5:59:41 PM <br />Name: Jade Falcon <br />Redwood City resident <br />On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 5:58 PM Jade Falcon <jadecat9&gmail.com> wrote: <br />Our current RWC police training emphases arrest and control techniques (4 hours of training every 2 years), which is <br />important, but the number of hours necessary greatly outnumbers that of racial profiling (2 hours EVERY 5 years) and <br />implicit bias training (4 hours for every unknown number of years). <br />As a private citizen working for a company that does not interact with the public, I am REQUIRED by my company to take <br />implicit bias training / racial bias training 2 hours every single year! Given the high contact of police with RWC citizens of <br />every nationality and today's climate, why is this not a priority for our PD? <br />Officers need to trained to better understand race issues, their own biases, and how that can help de-escalate issues, if you <br />want to build trust between the community and the police department. <br />https://wyldfires.smugmug.com <br />Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you <br />underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening <br />Why just cultivate evil, when you can hybridize for hardiness, drought resistance, flavor and <br />pretty colors? Evil so cultivated that it knows which fork to use - - but chooses not to. <br />Rick le Mon <br />