June 23, 2020
Implicit Bias with Liz Belmonte
Lori Henricksen, director of the emergency telecommunications program for high schoolers at the Veterans Tribute Career and Technical Academy in Las Vegas (Nevada), discusses the creation of her program and the challenges it presents,
Liz Belmonte, training supervisor at Cambridge Emergency Communications, discusses implicit bias, including how it can affect every step of an emergency police call, from the caller to the dispatcher to the responding police officer. For Your Information: Test your implicit biases: https://perception.org/research/implicit-bias/ Watch Dr. Mahzarin R. Banaji explain hidden biases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK_G-rkXenM&t=2s