UPDATE for 10/11/2019
According to Israel HaYom: Israel Police to assign hundreds of new officers to Arab sector.
Arab MKs, top police officials meet with Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. In addition to 620 new police officers, responsibility for Arab organized crime to be transferred to Lahav 433 Major Crimes Unit.
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ISRAELI ARABS — Arab citizens of Israel — are demanding that the government provide police protection to rid their communities of gangs and guns.
According to The Times of Israel, Joint List leaders want to meet public security minister and demand prison sentences and heavy fines for possession of illegal firearms, crackdown on organized crime.(https://tinyurl.com/y6euo4nx)
While some Joint List MKs are a thorn in the side of the government, the most recent election shows they do represent a sizable number of Israeli citizens.
It behooves the government to increase the number of police; an organization that is sadly understaffed compared to U.S. community served by local police, sheriff’s deputies, and state police.
COOPERATION POSSIBLE?
If the Israeli Arabs want more police protection — and as Israeli taxpayers that is their due — they must do their part and cooperate with police.
That may prove to be the Israeli Arabs’ greatest stumbling block to safer neighborhoods.
In the U.S., too many black neighborhoods refuse to cooperate with police even when the police also are black.
SELF POLICING
Both the Israeli Arabs and the American blacks need to do some self-policing.
That doesn’t necessarily mean risking their lives by trying to arrest criminals, but by being observant and relaying relevant information to the police.
They also need to cooperate with the police when the cops attempt to make an arrest if only by not interfering with the arrest.
ADD MORE COPS
Israel would do well to add more Israeli Arabs to the police ranks; it would do well to add more policemen — Jewish, Arab, or “other” — to its understaffed organization.
Today Israel depends on Border Police and the army to supplement the regular police. These people are mot trained to deal with citizens; rather they are trained for border conflicts and infiltration by non-citizens bent on harm to Israeli citizens.
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