Workshops and Programs:

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center offers a number of unique programs for Canadian law enforcement professionals. These programs are designed to provide law enforcement with the tools to work effectively with Canada’s multicultural population. The programs provide innovative insight to both continuing and new issues faced by law enforcement professionals.

Upon conclusion of the course, participants will receive a certificate of completion.

For all trips, participants must be available to travel to Los Angeles the day prior to the course date listed. Participants will make their own travel and accommodation reservations with guidance from FSWC.

• Premier Program for Command Staff (Senior Officers)
• Changing Role of Law Enforcement – Cultural Diversity (‘Tools 1’)
• NYC Police Perspectives on Profiling

Glassman Tools for Tolerance® for Command Staff is a 3-day premium program designed for senior officers addressing the unique challenges facing today's law enforcement leadership in an increasingly democratic and diverse society. The program guides senior officers to obtain appropriate responses to complex issues.

Offered to sworn, civilian, and reserve personnel at the level of Inspector (or equivalent) and above, the program utilizes the unique educational environment of the Museum of Tolerance to:

The Changing Role of Law Enforcement is the core 2-day law enforcement program designed to explore the evolving role of law enforcement in a rapidly changing and increasingly diverse society. Participants are introduced to new models, including "Soldier to Educator," through which to view issues of diversity and to hone ethical decision-making skills. The goal of the Glassman Tools for Tolerance® for Law Enforcement program is to assist law enforcement professionals, as front line service providers, explore the evolving role of law enforcement in an increasingly democratic and diverse society.

Specific objectives include:
This program includes an interactive virtual learning experience segment (Perspectives on Profiling - Tool for Police Effectiveness or a Weapon of Bias?) delivered on CD-ROM examining racial profiling. It compels users to make critical choices in testing situations. Unique to this product is the ability to see the outcome of the user's choices and evaluate their consequences. This cutting edge training tool moves officers into a new paradigm of thought on the subject of racial profiling. It is sensitive to the challenges that face law enforcement both in reality and in the management of public perception. The product is founded on a robust ethical perspectives projected into real life situational choices.

This unique training tool confronts a number of complex issues that surround the debate on racial profiling:

I. The confusion surrounding criminial profiling, racial profiling, and racism.

II. The myth that statistics prove that an individual member of a specific racial group is more likely to commit a given crime than anyone else.

III. The dangerous trend of police disengagement from potentially sensitive suspects to avoid accusations of racial profiling or selective engagement to satisfy quotas.

This one day training program provided by the New York Tolerance Center helps reinforce the attitudes and skills necessary for good policing. The programs focus on themes of diversity, tolerance, prejudice, and the challenges facing law enforcement in a post-9/11 world. The content of this program is uniquely tailored to the specific needs of new and seasoned police officers. The New York training facility creates an extraordinary learning environment to explore important issues. Officers attending this program are not passive learners, rather they are fully engaged with the interactive exhibits and films, teaching faculty and other students. The fundamental goal of this training program is to increase understanding, break down stereotypes and prejudices and end discrimination in all its forms.

Perspectives on Profiling- Effective Policing Tool or Weapon of Bias? Increased media scrutiny and public fear intensify law enforcement’s challenge to strengthen security without jeopardizing individual and community trust and freedom. September 11th has forced a change in profiling strategies, but must not be allowed to feed a culture of bias. This interactive program uses cutting edge technology to provide law enforcement with an innovative tool to hone their ethical decision making skills and meet this complex challenge.

Program objectives cover the significant issues concerning racial profiling including, definitions and legal issues; how to differentiate criminal profiling from racial profiling; and challenging police officers to examine areas of hidden bias personally and among their peers. 

Contact Melissa Mikel, Director of Education to discuss creating your own customized Glassman Tools for Tolerance® program. We welcome your requests for participation and look forward to discussing opportunities for your group to attend Glassman Tools for Tolerance®.

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