Connecticut is developing a new, community-driven curriculum for police officers who work in and around certain urban areas — a requirement of the state’s six-year-old Police Accountability Act of 2020 that could finally come to fruition later this year.
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Last September, the state contracted with Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory to create a Community Engagement Training Program, through which it will develop training for officers in Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven and their surrounding communities — a total of about 34 municipalities. The curriculum, which is still in development, will focus on three core issues: implicit bias among officers, reconciliation for past harms to minority communities and “procedural justice” — the manner in which officers interact with people on a daily basis.
Chris Collibee, spokesperson for Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget office, said the agency worked with the University of Connecticut’s Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy to “review national best practices and ensure Connecticut delivers high-quality training that supports both community and law enforcement safety. ” He said an initial request for proposals had yielded no results, and a second received only one submission that the agency determined to be unacceptable.
“As a result, a decision was made to sole source the contract to Yale, based on their established work with the Department of Justice and recognized best practices,” Collibee said. Jorge Camacho, director of the Justice Collaboratory, said the developers plan to use a “train the trainers” model, where representatives from the police departments will learn the curriculum — a roughly 8-hour program — and then bring it back to their respective departments. They’ll begin rolling it out in 2027.
Ernest Stevens, managing director for the Council of State Governments Justice Center, which is collaborating with Yale on the training, said the process would include three community advisory boards — one to review the development of the curriculum, one to review the plans for training, and a third to give feedback on how the training is conducted.
“It’s truly not to go in there either side try to make a point. What we’re trying to do is go in there and try and make a difference, and I think if you can focus on that, focus on the people involved and not the problem that everybody seems to point at, then you have the opportunity to have these real successes,” Stevens said.
Stevens, who spent 30 years as an officer in the San Antonio Police Department, said the training would need to do more than just “check a box. ” It needed to make a lasting impression on the officers.
“ I have sat through crisis intervention trainings that have put me completely to sleep, and then I’ve sat through some where the engagement and the way that the material was presented was a lifelong lasting experience for me. So that’s truly what we’re trying to develop Connecticut,” he said.
Police Chief LJ Fusaro of the Town of Groton, who leads the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association, said police chiefs had received an invitation to attend a gathering in July to learn more about the proposed curriculum. He said they don’t know much about it yet but they’re “always open to new and innovative thinking.
” Police officers in Connecticut are already required, under the training provided by the Police Officers Standards and Training Council, to take a three-day social justice seminar in which they study implicit bias, procedural justice and relations between the police and the public. But the Justice Collaboratory’s Camacho said a lot of current training is outdated.
And he pointed to another key difference: The new training is being developed in collaboration with the community, where previous programs were handled mainly by police. He said trainings are often created in the wake of high-profile events and can be influenced by conversations around those events rather than focusing on the more common daily interactions police officers have with residents of a given area.
Still, the curriculum is being developed at a time when police relations — particularly in Hartford — are under intense scrutiny. Two men,and Stevie Jones, were killed by Hartford police officers in February. Both men were experiencing mental health crises when they were shot, and the incidents sparked calls from community members for accountability, includingdictating how police should respond during a mental health crisis.
or whoever it is,” Ramdath said.
“This type of training, I wish it was more than a day,” Stevens said. “We spend so much time learning how to shoot a gun and drive a car, and we spend very little time teaching officers how to communicate and deescalate situations. And I just think we need to flip that upside down. ”
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