Wrongful conviction course now required for all police recruits in Illinois
NORMAL, Ill. - Starting in 2023, all police recruits in the state of Illinois must take a Wrongful Conviction Awareness and Avoidance course as part of their training. The course was initially developed in 2016 by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Police Training Institute Director Michael Schlosser with help from the Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois Springfield. The Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board was initially dubious […]