On my honor,
I will never betray my badge,
my integrity, my character,
or the public trust.
I will always have
the courage to hold myself
and others accountable for our actions.
I will always uphold the constitution
my community and the agency I serve.
So help me God
End to old ideas
Long Arm of the Law
 Police vs. “the bad guys”
 Kick Ass, Take Names - Not the
philosophy for policing into the 21st
century
 Code of Silence is no longer tolerated
 Officers have developed their own
privately owned language (Cop Lingo)
which might be judgmental and
offensive to the community
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Cop Lingo
 Attitude
adjustment?
 Physically harming a person to instill
respect for the police
 Routine call?
 Service call with no extraordinary
circumstances
 Good Rape?
 Rape with a credible victim
Cop Lingo
Crispy Critter?
 Arson or burn victim
 Stiff?
 Dead person
 Road Kill?
 Person who has died as
the result of a crash
 Pigeon?
 Victim of a con artist

Cop Lingo
 Cop
Groupie?
 Woman who fraternizes with peace
officers with the intention of having
relationships with them
 Bean Hole?
 Food Port
 Snitch?
 Informant, good or bad
Cop Lingo
 Crack
Head?
 Addict
 Dirt
Bag?
 Anyone officers don’t like
 Puzzle Palace?
 Headquarters
 Dick?
 Detective
Cop Lingo
548?
 Calling someone an idiot by number
(1096 = Mental patient)
 Dime?
 10 years in jail or $10 in drugs
 Dope?
 Any illegal narcotics
 Dirty?
 Guilty of a crime
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Cop Lingo
 Hoopty
or P.O.S.?
 Car in crappy shape
 On the Box?
 Lie Detector Test
 Whacked?
 Killed, hit, assaulted
 Bunko?
 Con artist & fraud
What was the predominant
ethnicity of the first American
police officers. Why?
Black History Month Handout
Read the handout in your group
and decide on the possible
negative/positive outcomes.
 What questions do you
have about the columnist
who wrote the article?
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HUMAN DNA
If our DNA coding was stretched it
would reach from New York to the
California coastline.
 Our DNA coding would fill 200
Manhattan size phonebooks with
1,000 pages each.
 All 100,000 of your genes are
crammed into the 23 pairs of
chromosomes in the nucleus
of each of your cells!

HUMAN DNA
 Children
share 99.5% of their
parents DNA
ALL
of God’s people
share over 99% of
the exact same
DNA!!!
PURPOSE OF TRAINING IN CULTURAL
DIFFERENCES AND DIVERSITY
 Pro-active
approach enhances
positive police-community relations
 Reduces lawsuits
 End to old ideas & myths
 Improves professionalism
& understanding
Ohio’s Diversity
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From 92 countries, 808 immigrants
became new American citizens at
Value City Arena in 2008.
In 2004, Ohio processed 14,211
citizenship applications, triple the
number in 2003.
“Nationwide, 450,000
immigrants are expected to
take the oath this year.”
Diversity of the Dollar Bill?
Who Was Haym Solomon?
Polish Jew – Savior of a Nation?
 1776 arrested as a spy as part of
the Sons of Liberty, 18 months
 Later sentenced to death but
escaped
 War Chest was empty
 $25 million in today’s $
 Bailed out the U.S. several
more times
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SENSITIVITY
The ability to consider the
feeling of others and address
the party in a respectful and
non-offensive manner
CULTURAL AWARENESS
 The
opening of our minds and
hearts to the ways of others
 The mutual exchange of
knowledge for the betterment
of humanity
Are people a product of their
environment?
Why is cultural awareness
important to you as a Law
Enforcement Official?
A police officer pulled over a car for a
traffic violation. The driver appeared to
be non-American. He stopped, then
got out of the car and approached the
officer’s car, shouting and waving his
arms. The officer wondered if this
person was dangerous or unstable,
preparing to attack him/her.
In some cultures, you don’t
inconvenience a police officer by
making him/her get out of the car
and come to you. Waiting for the
officer or doing nothing is a tacit
admission of guilt. In the context
of the driver’s cultural norms, he
was paying the officer the utmost
respect by stepping out of the car.
Waving his arms letting him know
he is unarmed.
Diversity in
American Law
Enforcement
1891 New York
1910 L.A.
Alice Wells
Marie Owens – Chicago PD
 Detective
sergeant in 1891
Bass
Reeves
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Born enslaved in 1838 in Crawford
County, Arkansas
Fled north into Indian Territory and
lived with Seminole and Creek Indians.
Reeves and his family farmed until 1875
Recruited by Judge Isaac Parker & U.S.
Marshal James Fagan in 1875
Reeves arrested over 3,000
fugitives & killed at least 14
At statehood became a member of the
Muskogee, Oklahoma, police department
at the age of 68
Dayton PD
 First
black police officer?
 Patorlman William Jenkins
1897
 Lucius Rice 1909
Sgt. 1915
killed by gunfire 1939
Sheriff Collins

First female Sheriff in Ohio – What
year?
Understanding different life
practices relating to race,
religion, gender, age, physical
ability/disability, sexual
orientation, validity and integrity
of those behaviors
U.S. POPULATION
As of Jan 11, 2006
U.S.
305,600,000
World 6,750,000,000
Source: http://www.census.gov
THE WORLD’S POPULATION
If we could shrink the earth’s
population to the size of a
village of precisely 100 people,
with all the existing human
ratios remaining the same, it
would look something like the
following:
How Many Would There Be?
Europeans
 Asians
 Africans
 From the
Western
Hemisphere

How many
males vs.
females
 How many white
vs. non-white
 How many
Christians vs.
non-Christian

THE WORLD’S POPULATION
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere,
both North and South
8 Africans
THE WORLD’S POPULATION
52 would be Female
48 would be Male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
How Many Would There Be?
How many
heterosexuals
vs. homosexuals
 How many will
live in
substandard
housing?
 How many will
be wealthy?

How many can
read?
 How many have
malnutrition?
 How many have
a college
education?
 How many own
a computer?
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THE WORLD’S POPULATION
89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the
entire world’s wealth all 6 would be
from the U.S.
80 would live in substandard housing
THE WORLD’S POPULATION
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death
1 would be near birth
1 (only) would have a
college education
1 would own a computer
OHIO POPULATION
TOP 10 COUNTIES, PERCENT CHANGE IN
DEMOGRAPHICS 1990-2000
DELAWARE
WARREN
UNION
NOBLE
MEDINA
BROWN
FAIRFIELD
HOLMES
CLERMONT
VINTON
64.3%
39.0%
28.0%
24.0%
23.5%
20.9%
18.7%
18.6%
18.5%
15.4%
PROACTIVE APPROACH

REDUCED POLICE/COMMUNITY
CONFLICT: pro-active organization
promoting understanding of intercultural communication reduce
community conflict and
misunderstandings
Police Code of Ethics
Police Code of Ethics
Police Code of Ethics
POLICE CODE OF
CONDUCT
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PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES OF A
POLICE OFFICER: A police officer
acts as an official representative of
government who is required and trusted
to work within the law
POLICE CODE OF
CONDUCT

PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES OF
A POLICE OFFICER: A police officer
shall perform all duties impartially,
without favor or affection or ill will and
without regard to status, gender, race,
religion, political belief or aspiration
POLICE CODE OF
CONDUCT
DISCRETION: A police officer will use
responsibly, the discretion vested in the
position and exercise it within the law
 USE OF FORCE: A police officer will
never employ unnecessary force or
violence and will use only such force in
the discharge of duty as is reasonable
in all circumstances

POLICE CODE OF
CONDUCT
CONFIDENTIALITY: Whatever a police
officer sees, hears or learns of that is of
a confidential nature will be kept secret
unless the performance of duty or legal
provision requires otherwise
 INTEGRITY: A police officer will not
engage in acts of corruption or bribery
nor will an officer condone such
acts by other police officers
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POLICE CODE OF
CONDUCT

COOPERATION WITH OTHER
OFFICERS AND AGENCIES: Police
officers will cooperate with all legally
authorized agencies and their
representatives in the pursuit of justice
POLICE CODE OF
CONDUCT
PERSONAL / PROFESSIONAL
CAPABILITIES: Police officers will be
responsible for their own standard of
professional performance and will take
every reasonable opportunity to
enhance and improve their level of
knowledge and competency
 PRIVATE LIFE: Police officers will
behave in a manner that does not bring
discredit to their agencies or themselves

An officer’s values and beliefs affect
his/her conduct
 An officer’s conduct affects community
perception of the police department
 Community perception affects an
officer’s conduct
 Understanding cultural differences
makes our job easier
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DEFINITIONS
RACISM
Prejudice and/or discrimination against
people based on the social construction
of race. Differences in physical
characteristics (e.g. skin color, hair
texture, eye shape) are used to support
a system of inequities.
Sikhism
Monotheism - (Judaism,
Christianity, Islam and Baha'i Faith)
 5th largest in the world
 Principal beliefs are faith and justice
 "Realization of Truth is higher than all
else. Higher still is truthful living“ – Guru
Nanak
 God has no gender in Sikhism,
God is “without form”
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Sikhism
Equality of all humans and rejects
discrimination on the basis of caste, creed,
and gender
 A warrior culture with only 2% of India
being Sikh; but make up nearly 30% of
Indian Army officers
 Traditional weapons like sabres and
chakram/quoits still used
 Congressional Medal of Honor, or
equivelent, in every major war

Tajdeep Singh Rattan
“I am willing to
lay down my life
for America. In
return, I ask only
that my country
respect my faith”
RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
Prejudice and/or discrimination
against people based on their
religious beliefs and/or practices.
HOMOPHOBIA/HETEROSEXISM
Prejudice and/or discrimination against
people who are or who are perceived to be
lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender
(LGBT). While homophobia is usually used
to describe a blatant fear or hatred of LGBT
people, heterosexism is a broader term
used to describe attitudes and behaviors
based on the belief that heterosexuality is
the norm and/or that homosexuality is
wrong.
STEREOTYPE
An oversimplified generalization
about a person or group of people
without regard for individual
differences. Even seemingly
positive stereotypes that link a
person or group to a specific
positive trait can have negative
consequences.
ABELISM
Prejudice and/or discrimination
against people with mental
and/or physical disabilities.
AGEISM
Prejudice and/or discrimination
against people because of their real
or perceived age. Although ageism
is often assumed to be bias against
older people, members of other
groups, such as teens, are also
targets of prejudice and/or
discrimination based on their age.
ANTI-SEMITISM
Prejudice and/or discrimination against
Jews. Anti-Semitism can be based on
hatred against Jews because of their
religious beliefs and their group
membership (ethnicity).
CLASSISM
Prejudice and/or discrimination against
people because of their real or perceived
social and economic status.
ISLAMOPHOBIA
Prejudice and/or discrimination against
people who are or who are perceived
to be Muslim or of Arab
descent, and a fear or
dislike of Islamic culture.
Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan
SEXISM
Prejudice and/or discrimination
against people based on their real
or perceived sex. Sexism is based
on a belief (conscious or
unconscious) that
there is a natural
order based on
sex.
XENOPHOBIA
Prejudice and/or discrimination
against anyone or anything that
is perceived to be foreign or
outside one’s own group, nation
or culture. Xenophobia is
commonly used to describe
negative attitudes toward
foreigners and immigrants.
SILVESTRE S. HERRERA
Drafted in 1944 at the age of 27 with
his 4th child on the way. Lived in
Arizona.
 ...."Son, you don't have to go, they
can't draft you”
 Not an American citizen
 Born in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico
 Legally, Silvestre was a Mexican
National and didn't owe service to the
United States
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SILVESTRE S. HERRERA
"I thought, I'm going anyway. I didn't want
anybody to die in my place... I felt that I
had my adopted country that had been so
nice to me. I thought, I have an American
wife and the kids and one on the way."
 Part of the first American unit to have
landed in Europe during World War II
 Under heavy fire his one man charge
captured 8 enemy soldiers.
 When not in battle he studied to take
his citizenship test!
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Later they again came under fire by a
machine gun nest taking countless
American lives. They were separated
by a mine field.
 Alone Silvestre entered the mine field
to attack the enemy.
 A mine exploded severing his leg
below the knee.
 He attacked again and another mine
exploded below him
costing him his other leg.
 Yet he continued to fight.
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Silvestre's courage and fighting
spirit became legendary, but it
also presented the United
States with a problem. The
young hero still was not an
American citizen.
He was asked if he wanted to
call home to tell them he had
survived the attack?
He is the only person in the
world authorized to wear the
Medal of Honor and Mexico's
equivalent
 Pro-active
approach enhances and
embraces positive policecommunity relations
 Reduction in frequency of lawsuits
 Greater personal/organizational
benefits
 End to old ideas
 Police image & perception.
 Pro-active
approach enhances and
embraces positive policecommunity relations
Hindu
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There is one God, with many manifestations
in different religions- all lead to God
 Eternal, unchanging, infinite, immanent,
and transcendent reality which is the Divine
Ground of all matter, energy, time, space,
being, and everything beyond in this
Universe
 Brahman religious belief is just seen
as different paths to the one god
Hindu
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Is Christianity much different?
 Christians believe in angels, demons, and
saints that are inferior to God
 Christians do not consider these beings as
gods, though they are sometimes the object
of prayer and veneration.
 Christians believe in the trinity
All forms of prejudice
can be both conscious
(overt and intentional)
and unconscious (tacit
and based on
assumptions and
“norms”).
ANTI-BIAS
An active commitment to
challenging prejudice,
stereotyping and all forms of
discrimination.
BIAS
An inclination or preference either
for or against an individual or
group that interferes with
impartial judgment.
BIGOTRY
An unreasonable or irrational
attachment to negative
stereotypes and prejudices.
DIVERSITY
Means different or varied. The
population of the United States is
made up of people from diverse
“races,” cultures and places.
MULTICULTURAL
Means many or multiple cultures.
The United States is multicultural
because its population consists of
people from many different
cultures.
PREJUDICE
Prejudging or making a decision
about a person or group of
people without sufficient
knowledge. Prejudicial thinking is
frequently based on stereotypes.
CULTURE
The patterns of daily life learned
consciously and unconsciously by a
group of people. These patterns can
be seen in language, governing
practices, arts, customs,
holiday celebrations, food,
religion, dating rituals and
clothing, to name a few.
DISCRIMINATION
The denial of justice and fair
treatment by both individuals and
institutions in many arenas,
including employment, education,
housing, banking and political
rights. Discrimination is an action
that can follow
prejudicial thinking.