18 more EPD officers got crisis de-escalation and principled policing training this week

 

Eureka Police Department Chief Steve Watson's response to the "EPD texts" investigation is in this earlier post. 

https://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2021/04/city-of-eureka-has-no-update-yet-on-epd.html?m=1

Chief Watson also told me, "We also just put another 18 officers through an all-day crisis de-escalation and principled policing (procedural justice, implicit bias etc.) training this Monday along with another dozen-plus EPD members in March."