In light of the Black Lives Matter movement, sparked by the murders of countless innocent black lives by police brutality. It has come to the attention that police academies spend about 110 hours training their recruits on firearm skills and defence but only eight hours on conflict management and mediation. Zero hours are spent on educating the history of slavery and the correlation of slavery with the police force.

It should be mandatory for criminal justice trainees who plan to become future law enforcement officers now frequently take courses such as diversity in criminal justice, ethics, history of slavery to be educated on how the police force is rooted in racism. The goal is to make future police professionals more aware of their own biases and the racist history of the police force.

The law enforcement's institutional decades and centuries of racism still matters because policing culture has not changed as much as it could. For many African Americans, law enforcement represents a legacy of reinforced inequality in the justice system and resistance to advancement.