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