by 55% between 2006 and 2013, according to an analysis by the California Birth Equity Collaborative, a pilot program founded by state health officials and the Stanford University School of Medicine.
When testifying in favor of Mitchell’s proposal, health advocate Janette Robinson-Flint told members of the state Senate Health Committee this month, “Black women have been left behind.” Training alone is not enough to target implicit bias, and should not distract from ongoing efforts to target more overt forms of racism and prejudice, said Kelly Capatosto, senior research associate at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Still, she and other experts called California’s legislative proposals “a step in the right direction.”
Evans, who has been working with San Francisco police officers to address personal biases over the last two years, wrote a letter on behalf of the committee in support of Kamlager-Dove’s bill to require training for all police officers, calling it “a good start.”
Wow. Allowing a system that enables implicit bias against perceived bias thus creating abuse of power. Absolutely California at its finest.
That and train and hire more POC cops, judges, nurses and doctors...Helping white folk be more human should not be our only goal...
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