Course Category | Virtual Academy

Cultural Competency: Racial Profiling and Implicit Bias Part 1

Overview

This course concentrates its efforts toward providing content within the context of policing in the 21st century. Law enforcement officers are faced with diverse issues and diverse people (externally and internally) daily. This course focuses heavily on understanding the need to accept and manage diversity, understanding law enforcement culture, understanding how to self-assess and recognize hidden biases, and understanding how to develop a process of continuously becoming culturally competent.

Course Length: 2 Hours

Meet your Instructor

Aaron Thompson

Expertise:

Professor of Sociology in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Eastern Kentucky University

Aaron Thompson is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. Dr. Thompson has a Ph.D. in Sociology in areas of Organizational Behavior and Race and Gender Relations. Dr. Thompson has over 25 years of leadership experience in higher education and business and authored and co-authored many related books. In addition, he has spent numerous years serving on nonprofit boards in leadership roles and has researched, taught and/or consulted in areas of diversity, leadership, ethics, multicultural families, race and ethnic relations, student success, first-year students, retention, cultural competence, and organizational design throughout his personal career.