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Israel has not influenced U.S. law enforcement by training it to be more violent, but rather has served as a model in creating the American Security State.
A lot of attention has been directed recently at the “training” American police receive from Israel. It’s extensive and pervasive. The point, however, is not that Israel has made US police more violent. They were violent and repressive a century or more before Israel was even established. It isn’t even that Israel has helped militarize the US police. It has, of course, but in response to fundamental shifts in the American political and economic scene.
Dallas mayor and police chief joined panel to examine Capitol riot and violence
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on Tuesday co-hosted a panel with the mayor to discuss racism, anti-Semitism, policing and violent crime.
Screenshot of Zoom Webinar titled “Looking Back at 2020: Racism, Antisemitism, and Public Safety Challenges in Dallas” with moderator Mary Pat Higgins (top right), President and CEO, Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, and panelists (clockwise from top left) Rabbi Andrew Paley, Senior Rabbi, Temple Shalom and Chair, Faith Forward Dallas, Rev. Dr. Maria Dixon Hall, Chief Diversity Officer and Professor, Southern Methodist University, Jesuorobo Enobakhare, Jr., Chair, Community Police Oversight Board, Eddie García, Incoming Police Chief, Dallas Police Department, and Bishop T.D. Jakes, The Potter’s House Church, on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Dallas.(Zoom)
Yogananda Pittman named acting US Capitol police chief after riots
The US Capitol Police has appointed a Black woman as its acting police chief after the former head resigned in the fallout from the agency’s inadequate response to pro-Trump rioters who staged an insurrection at the Capitol last week.
Yogananda Pittman, who previously served as an assistant chief, will be the first woman and first Black person to head the Capitol Police, according to Morgan State University, the historically black school that Pittman graduated from in 1999. CNN reached out to Capitol police and has not been able to independently confirm this.
By PETER HERMANN, DANA HEDGPETH AND JUSTIN WM. MOYER | The Washington Post | Published: January 1, 2021 WASHINGTON Homicides in the District of Columbia rose for the third consecutive year in 2020, reaching nearly 200 for the first time since the previous decade and further stressing a city rattled by the pandemic and social and political unrest. The number of killings stood at 198 Thursday evening, making the past year the deadliest in the city since 2004. More than 920 people were shot in the District in 2020, a 64% increase from three years ago. The victims of deadly violence include a beloved school bus driver, a construction worker killed while renovating a home and a grandmother who survived covid-19. A little boy was fatally shot at a stop the violence cookout, and a toddler died of gunfire as he was strapped in a car seat.