The holocaust museum was a long time ago! I was appalled at being
forced to go. I must say though, I actually enjoyed it and went back a few years later. The mere fact of being forced is what I did not like. I assume Bob is talking of the current regime mandating (forcing) all officers to attend the African History Museum in DC last year. In fact, the last trip was in December 2023 and it started with bussing us down there in January 2023. Once again, I was not happy to have to go there and be told what a racist POS I was and that I have been policing all wrong throughout the years. What a gigantic waste of time! To make it worse, we had to eat there, and it was all ethnic foods on the menu. I didn't want fish, chicken, collard greens, beans and so on. Average of $25 for lunch. Even though there were 20 food trucks lined up on the curb just out the door, we couldn't leave to get food and were forced to go hungry or eat in the museum's cafeteria.
Tony is also right, we had to do it but the mandatory trainings and IST classes that we get nowadays have gone far overboard with the topic of diversity. Don't even get me on the topic of the mandatory trans/gay classes taught by a lady who insisted she was one of us, meaning police. SHE NEVER HAS BEEN. I think those classes may have been 8 or 16 hours.