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The Commission on law enforcement, accountability, Community and Transparency that more demographic data on arrests be collected and that race be included on driver’s licenses.

The commission also recommends police agencies dedicate an officer to community policing, continue to recruit more officers from minority communities and provide training on pronoun inclusion related to transgender and gender-nonconforming populations.

The first set of recommendations released in July call for police departments to adopt a duty to report misconduct, conduct an analysis of police jobs, and implement new training and training standards.

The commission recommended that all officers and recruits get training on implicit bias, de-escalation and reporting police misconduct. They also recommended conducting an analysis of police jobs that they said would require major funding in order to assess and adjust the training curriculum for new officers.

The 13-member police accountability panel is led by the attorney general’s office and includes representation from police, a circuit court judge, the NAACP, members of human rights organizations, mental health groups and the public.

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