Should NH add de-escalation and implicit bias training for police to state law? A NH Department of Safety State Police vehicle GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor file Published: 5/18/2021 2:54:27 PM Earlier this year, the New Hampshire Senate unanimously passed SB 114, a bill to require law enforcement officers to complete training on de-escalation, ethics, implicit bias, and cultural diversity. The bill mirrors action from the Police Standards and Training Council to voluntarily add this training. Now that SB 114 is in the House of Representatives, some legislators argue a state law is unnecessary. A bill to address implicit bias SB 114 was originally introduced to address discrimination at state parks, in particular. Among other things, the bill would have created a database of racist attacks and other civil rights violations in publicly-accessible areas. After debating the concept of “verbal violence” and other language in the bill, Republicans in the Senate moved to greatly narrow the scope of SB 114.