(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced it received 127 pages of records from the South Bend, Indiana Police Department which show the Department offered diversity training in 2017 which includes a “cultural competence” rating for personnel. The training material also names various classes of prejudice, including “languageism” and “sizeism.” The Mayor of South Bend at that time was Pete Buttigieg.
The South Bend Police Department training material claims all personnel have a measurable Cumulative Perceptual Index (CPI) rating, which measure their “cultural competence.”