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About the Course
Everyone has implicit biases. Unfortunately, implicit biases can prevent officers from interacting effectively with people who are different from themselves. The focus of this course is to give officers tools to help recognize, reduce, and prevent their own implicit biases in order to help strengthen their relationships with the communities they serve and protect.
Your Instructor
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Greg Townsend and John Bostain
Gregory Townsend is a retired Health Service Administrator at the Jefferson County Department of Health in Birmingham, Alabama. Townsend worked with the agency for 22.5 years, including the positions of project manager and health service trainer. He has worked on special projects in the Quality Improvement Decision Support division. He was also a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leaders program. This three-year fellowship provides cross-sector leadership development based on evidence, informed by experience, and grounded in principles of equity and social justice.
John Bostain is the President of Command Presence, LLC. John has committed the last 23 years to law enforcement, 20 of which have been as a law enforcement trainer. He has presented nationally and internationally on contemporary law enforcement topics such as dynamics of officer/citizen encounters, use of force, human performance factors, and instructor development. He is certified as a Force Analyst by the Force Science Institute (FSI) and holds a B.S.Ed in Adult Education from Valdosta State University.