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Philadelphia Police Recruits Leave For Holocaust Museum Trip

By Tim Jimenez

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- 76 Philadelphia Police recruits on two buses made the trip to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

They left the academy around 5am on Tuesday morning to participate in a national program called "Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust."

Sergeant David Lee says the recruits are taught ethics here at the Police Academy, but this trip expands on that -- sometimes leaving these men and women speechless.

"Actually it's pretty quiet, pretty quiet hen we leave," Lee says. "They kind of just take it all in. And I haven't had the opportunity to sit one on one with any of them and talk to them about it, but I know myself I reflect on the powerfulness of it all."

The Philadelphia Police Department has been participating since 2008. The program, which is for law enforcement across the country, is run by the museum and the Anti-Defamation League.

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