Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Chicago Police Department (CPD) Superintendent Eddie Johnson welcomed the first group of police recruits to attend cultural awareness training at The DuSable Museum of African American History. As part of the Mayor’s commitment to police reform and as outlined in the Superintendent’s Next Steps for Reform released earlier this year, this new curriculum is a demonstration of a commitment to comprehensive overhaul of training for new recruits that reflects the city’s values. For 56 recruits from the senior class at the CPD Education and Training Division, the trainings will include the history of African Americans in Chicago, cultural competency and awareness, procedural justice and implicit bias. The course is designed to strengthen constitutional policing and procedural justice practices, and supports the Department’s efforts to rebuild trust between the community and police. The day of training included curated tours of DuSable’s permanent exhibit, “Freedom and Resistance,” which chronicles significant events and people from enslavement through the Civil Rights era.