Cultural Diversity Training for the Future: Is California Law Enforcement on Track?

• NCJ Number: 139162
• Author(s): P M Harman
• Date Published: 1992
• Length: 109 pages
• Corporate Author: California Cmssn on Peace Officer Standards and Training
• Sale Source: NCJRS Photocopy Services; POST Media Distribution Ctr
• Publication Type: Program Description (Model)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

A futures study was conducted to determine the kind of cross-cultural awareness training California will require for law enforcement by the year 2002.

Abstract

Using a modified conventional delphi panel, six trends of critical significance were forecasted to increase over the next decade: availability of alternative funding sources, level of minority recruitment, cultural awareness training, changing population demographics, frequency of hate crime, and frequency of citizens' complaints. Significant events that would have an impact on the issue include State mandated language and cultural training, citizenship requirement waived for law enforcement employment, consent decree enacted statewide, budget shortfall/training funding cutoff, ethnic/racial conflict, and access to a language bank via mobile digital terminals. On the basis of a normative scenario, a strategic transition management was developed to include common concepts and implementation systems, a workable transition management structure, and supporting implementation technologies. 26 references and 17 appendixes