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Source: https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-truth-about-american-police-training-in-israel/
The Truth about American Police Training in Israel
(Commentary) Seth Mandel - New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's obsession with Israel was on full display when, during the campaign, video emerged of him advising activists "to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it's been laced by the IDF." The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamic pressure group that celebrated Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks, has been pushing the Los Angeles Police Commission to investigate every angle of the LAPD's past trips to Israel. The LA Police Commission's Office of the Inspector General has released a report on the department's past 10 years of participation in training programs abroad. Major metropolitan police departments do training activities with a range of countries, so to focus solely on Israel is an admission of egregious bias. Israel is one of 32 countries to which LA police have traveled. The UK gets twice as many trips and Canada three times as many as Israel. Israel accounts for 7% of activities of LAPD personnel going abroad.