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Skutch's avatar

Pretty sure having the Mossad train the police trainers was a bad idea as well. We also need to demand every agency comply with a psychological evaluation and screening process before we start handing out military grade weapons to them. There seems to be a cult inside some agencies that makes sure the non psycho cops are too scared to report the psycho ones.

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Ed Weinberg's avatar

Definitely agree with the second part of your post — but the "Mossad" piece practices guilt by association and is also wrong. You can check this out if you want to see where I'm coming from here — https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-did-israeli-secret-service-teach-floyd-police-to-kneel-on-neck.

Something I come here for is to unwind some of the conflations that have become unthinking "fact" in the 140-character age. Sorry to be the Jew who gets his back up when someone criticizes Israel — but if you want to criticize counter-terrorism training in American police departments then do it cleanly, without invoking stereotype shorthand.

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