Following a week of protests across the country, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced steps that her administration is taking to enact criminal justice reform.
Actions Governor Whitmer is taking:
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- Requesting that the Michigan Commission of Law Enforcement Standards provide guidance to law enforcement agencies on continuing education that will help officers keep up with the ever changing landscape of new laws and issues facing the community, including diversity and implicit bias training.
- Encouraging police departments to participate in efforts that are underway on comprehensive reporting on the use of force by police departments.
- Urging law enforcement agencies to implement duty to intervene polices.
Actions Michigan State Police have taken:
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- Created an Equity and Inclusion Officer position within the department.
- Set a goal to increase the racial minority trooper applicant pool to 25% and the female trooper applicant pool to 20%, in an effort to diversify the department.
- Established community service trooper positions to institute a community policing concept statewide.
- Posted all non-confidential department policies online to increase transparency.
- Implemented recurring implicit bias training for all enforcement members and assisted in the development and pilot of a nationwide implicit bias training for civilian personnel.
- Generated a public-facing transparency web portal for FOIA requests.
- Revised the department’s pursuit policy to limit the circumstances in which MSP members can engage in a vehicle pursuit.
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