About the Program
The Law Enforcement and Society (LEAS) program was created in 1999 by the ADL and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at the request of the DC Metropolitan Police Department. It has been adopted by 8 major U.S. cities, and in 2018 the Holocaust Center for Humanity began offering the program to agencies in Washington state.
This program is designed to connect police officers to their core values and to protect the public. To date, more than 5,000 officers have been trained in Washington State, and more than 160,000 officers from the US and 80 other countries have taken part in this program.
To book a LEAS program for your agency, please email Branda Anderson, Teaching and Learning Specialist.
Thank you to the Bayley Family Foundation for generously supporting this program.
“The quality of the presentation and the professionalism and passion of the instructors. The class was outstanding, made me realize that I do not know enough about that period of our history and I would really like to go to the museum. The way you used the pictures in the breakout rooms and then brought us back together and gave the context and then compared law enforcement then and now – very well done!”
– LEAS Participant
