Following a well-publicized racial profiling scandal in Palo Alto, California, another county in the north of the state is testing out a new program designed to teach police recruits about the inherent biases that exist within all of us.

The project, led by Lorie Fridell, also a leading expert on racial profiling, is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

"Human beings have racial biases and some of these biases are not conscious but, in fact, work below the conscious level," Fridell said, "even in people who are consciously tolerant and non-prejudiced. Our message to the trainees is: This might include you."

Amazingly, people think this whole "education" thing just might work.

East Palo Alto Police Chief Ronald Davis, a black man, is an early supporter of the program. And Lynne Johnson, the Palo Alto Chief who resigned after saying things that many took to be an admission of racial profiling, says the program "would be a great asset to law enforcement." Also sure to love it: young black men in Santa Clara County.