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It has been three years since the NYPD announced it would train its
police force on implicit bias—a decision the department came to after
one of its officers killed Eric Garner with a chokehold, a technique the
department had banned—but not one officer has received such training to
date.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD announced it would
retrain a significant portion of its police force in December 2014 after
a grand jury declined to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo, who is
white, for choking Garner, a black man, to death using the banned
technique that summer.
On Thursday, the NYPD’s first deputy commissioner, Benjamin Tucker,
said that no NYPD officer has received implicit bias training since
Garner death in 2014.
“We are in the process of beginning the
implicit bias training,” said Tucker, sitting alongside Mayor Bill de
Blasio, police commissioner James O’Neill and other senior officials in
the department at a press briefing at police headquarters.
De
Blasio, however, has repeatedly touted the implicit bias course as one
of his progressive administration’s and the department’s successes.
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Source: Newsweek
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