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and our staff has already found them useful. Active bystander ship has recently become the most significant new concept in American policing. In 2020, Georgetown Law Center’s Project ABLE (Active By standership for Law Enforcement) began training police departments nationwide in active bystandership. In less than four short years, ABLE has been embraced by almost 400 police departments with 169,000 officers, an unprecedented accep tance level by law enforcement. We believe fostering a culture of active bystandership will soon prove to be the standard of care for jails and prisons across the United States, and we are thrilled to be at the cusp of this standard of care. In December 2023, we trained over ten internal agency trainers. By the end of 2024 we will have fully implemented Heroes by train ing all our staff and integrating the Heroes training into our Academy

Fortunately, active bystandership is a set of skills that can be taught, practiced, learned and utilized.

for all future employees. Training alone has limited value. By itself, learning a new concept seldom changes behavior unless those concepts are supported by super vision and a culture. Fortunately, active bystandership is a set of skills that can be taught, practiced, learned and utilized. For this rea son, the Heroes training involves an evidence-informed curriculum, active discussion, group activities and role-plays. Staff members get a chance to practice saying difficult things to each other with the sup port of their classmates. It is important to me that our staff appreciates this training. The

classes are fun and interactive. More importantly, however, they understand the purpose of active bystandership is to prevent harm and save their careers and maybe even the lives of the people they work with. We believe creating and supporting a culture of active by standership will allow our staff to achieve long healthy careers. CT

Christopher Klein is the Superintendent of Anne Arundel County Detention in Maryland.

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