This issue of Police Chief is focused on policy in policing. I had a recent opportunity to consider the impact of policy and law from a national government that resulted in the most tragic outcome in history.

In April, I was invited to participate in a program led by the University of Virginia’s Center for Public Safety and Justice and the Rutgers University Miller Center on Policing and Community Resilience, in conjunction with the annual International March of the Living event in Krakow, Poland. The program, Operationalizing Never Again, culminates with a symbolic march from Auschwitz to Birkenau. The purpose of the educational program is to bring individuals from around the world to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance, and hatred. The goal is to inspire participants to fight intolerance, racism, and injustice by witnessing the atrocities of the Holocaust. What the Nazi regime did in state-sponsored operations to attempt to eliminate the Jewish people was unforgiving.