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And the Pueblo Police Department is on board. It was recently accepted into the ABLE project, joining more than 70 other law enforcement agencies and regional training academies across the country, including two other Colorado agencies in Denver and Golden. The project provides training to encourage peer intervention in law enforcement by giving officers tools to confidently intervene if their colleagues — or even their superiors — use excessive force or defy departmental guidelines. Its goal is to prevent harm by teaching officers how to step in and create a culture within the departme...

Belton Police to Receive Training in Excessive Force Intervention Police departments across the nation have been under increased scrutiny in recent years, and many are endeavoring to provide officers with the additional training and tools they need to protect and serve their communities while fostering trust and goodwill with the people. The Belton Police Department's latest effort to accomplish this is participation in a nationwide training initiative called the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) Project. ABLE, developed by Georgetown University Law’s Innovative Policing Prog...

Next month, the Dallas Police Department will become one of the first Texas cities to go through the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE) program, which aims to improve police culture by teaching officers how to prevent harm and misconduct by their coworkers. The program is a nationally coordinated initiative from the Georgetown Innovative Policing Program that's also intended to promote officer health and wellness. The city entered into an agreement between the University of North Texas at Dallas and DPD to implement the program. The program was developed in part by Ervin Staub,...

Botham Jean gets a street named after him and more Dallas city news Botham Jean gets a street named after him and more Dallas city news This street will now be called Botham Jean Boulevard. Photo by Jeremy McKane In this weekly roundup of city news, a street in Dallas gets a name change, Denton launches a COVID-19 vaccine clinic, and a group decides to hold their own darn MLK parade. Here's what happened in Dallas this week: Botham Jean Boulevard The Dallas City Council voted to change the name of a section of South Lamar Street to Botham Jean Boulevard, to honor the man who was killed in...

Associated Press Dallas police officers will receive training on how to avoid police mistakes and prevent misconduct by UNT Dallas specialists. Next month, the Dallas Police Department will launch a new training program that “aims to avoid police mistakes, prevent misconduct” and try to create a cultural shift within the department. The Active Bystandership in Law Enforcement training, or ABLE, aims to train officers on how to best intervene during conflict. A few DPD officers will be trained initially, and then they’ll become certified to train other officers. Each officer that partic...