Last week the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa submitted an Official Information Act request to the New Zealand Police to find out if any of our police have received training, either in Israel or New Zealand, from members of the Israeli military or police.
Our OIA request comes after revelations thousands of US police from numerous cities have been trained in Israel in policing and crowd control methods used against Palestinians. Israeli police are well known for the sheer brutality and racism which drives their policing and military responses to unarmed Palestinian protests.
Jewish Voices for Peace have documented this exchange in their report Deadly Exchange and describe “the dangerous consequences of American Law enforcement in Israel” and Amnesty International have highlighted the same problem.
US cities getting this Israeli training in brutality as the first line of defence include: Baltimore, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Arizona, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington state, DC Capitol police while thousands of others have received training from Israeli officials in the U.S.
Is New Zealand also receiving Israeli training in the most brutal law enforcement methods?
New Zealand police have a well-known history of racial bias in policing and we have seen determined moves over recent years towards general arming of police in New Zealand.
New Zealand Police have tried to “soften up” the public to accept generally armed police through policies to introduce tasers, carry weapons in squad cars, police being generally armed in Christchurch and elsewhere while the police searched for a wanted person and more recently have sprung a trial of “Armed Response Teams” on us.
We don’t want racism, violence or brutality to be the hallmark of policing in New Zealand based on the violence, racism and brutality which permeates the Israeli state.
I hope you get a reply.
Minto is an idiot, who even listens to him
I would like to be upto date on this please.
Excellent question.
Im not sure about Israel but they are definitely working with Chinese police- https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/112632211/chinese-police-officers-set-for-training-and-information-sharing-in-new-zealand. Perhaps they want tips on how to achieve a 99% conviction rate. Good luck with your OIA request but don’t expect a prompt response
“Surveillance + Run-Away Capitalism”
Combine the products and actions of Elon Musk with those of Peter Thiel.
What will you get?
A few excerpts…
Elon Musk: “Starlink” – now totals 420 own satellites.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/718099/starlink-global-plan-risks-local-internet-network/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-17/musk-s-spacex-launches-fifth-batch-of-starlink-satellites
Palantir knows everything.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/
Defunct satellites.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/117787200/defunct-satellites-threaten-human-race-space-agency-chief-warns
That’s a very unpleasant image at the top. Where was that taken and what happened to the agonised victim?
The policeman doesn’t seem to have any reason to apply such pressure, there does not appear to be any
violence threatening him.
I have noted that the Australian police and ours sometimes work conjointly on projects – one I think doing an in-depth stop and test for drink-drivers a few years ago. I think they would be up got for tougher training. The police around the world are becoming militarised it seems, turning citizens into ‘persons of suspicion’ whenever they decide on some line in the sand and someone steps over it.
Everyone should read Chris Trotter’s post that appeared here earlier.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2020/05/29/poisonous-legacy-why-george-floyd-could-be-choked-while-the-whole-world-watched/
Still quite different policing, but beware getting too close to Aussie methods. I remember a book from 3 decades ago “Police Killings in Australia’. Treatment of aborigines is considerably worse than Maori here, but John is right to emphasise that all aspects of our justice system target Maori disproportionately. Now we appear to have the Israeli state in the mix. Horrendous. Thank you to John for alerting us to the possibility.
Mate You have no idea why the cop has that bloke by the throat, he may have killed his own grandmother or just bragged about being C19 positive and been spitting at all and sundry for all you so non nonsensical comments along that line are a waste of oxygen.
Ahh Charlie I see your familiar with nonsensical arguments you poor subservient indoctrinated drone. Have you not been listening and watching carefully? Obviously not! Obviously sir you are part of the problem. Let me take a stab in the dark and make the assumption that you have never been arrested, let alone spent the night in the cells lest your uneducated opinion would change. Sir I can only suggest that you stop commenting on subjects which you have little to no real knowledge.
On the practice of NZ aligning itself with Australia, and perhaps more often than the reverse, this comment about immigration and one prominent intellectual refugee is worrying the good ‘ol boys of National and girls, who have never been overly concerned in their education by learning the principles of the Enlightenment or any of that guff and probably have never even had to learn enough to spill it out in an examination that had it included in acompulsory question.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/418125/national-party-deeply-suspicious-of-refugee-behrouz-boochani-s-visa
The National Party is surprised New Zealand immigration officials didn’t consult their Australian counterparts before granting a visa to refugee author Behrouz Boochani.
Interconnections … metadata.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israel-mossad-jeffrey-epstein-orwellian-nightmare/261692/
Where’s the love and kindness…? This nation looks more and more like a police state every day.
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