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There is no breakthrough: the problematic treatment of property offenses in Israel

Arie Schiff's shooting in Arad has rekindled the debate over property offenses.

Many complain about police incompetence ("I brought a video where the thief is clearly seen"), others try to deceive the insurance companies.

Israel Police response: "Increased enforcement activity at the intelligence level"

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David Rosenthal

Thursday, 21 January 2021, 00:43

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"If I did not have to file a complaint for insurance, I would not bother at all. Other than spending two hours at the station, nothing came of it. I have no idea what they are doing there, because to protect us and our property - they are not. The main thing I got a report because I downloaded Wait a minute, they excel at this, but in the essence of the job - catching thieves?

where are they?

My mother, for example, broke into the apartment a year ago and shaved off her uninsured house.

A week ago we received a message that the case was closed because of ACM, UM the demon knows, do not remember exactly what is written, but he closed without finding them.

So tell me you, what do you want from this Lion Schiff, who will let the thieves slip away like nothing?

Is this the face of our country? "

Like Oren, thousands of Israeli citizens have been complaining for years about the incompetence of the police in dealing with property offenses. The filing of the indictment against Aryeh Schiff (70) of Arad A very heated discussion on social media about the poor functioning of the Israel Police. "It is good to kill for our property," read one of the posts condemning the system, which has difficulty providing an adequate response to property crime. In another post, an Ashdod resident is angry with the police Say a silhouette or with a mask that covers the face, clearly!

Unfortunately, however, the case was closed on the grounds of an unknown offender.

If it does not make fun of work, then what is it?

I asked a policeman if they expected me to make the ambush myself and bring him handcuffed to the station, and he said - bring.

He laughed, I did not. "

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Ignited a heated debate.

Arie Schiff (Photo: Official Website, -)

Is the discourse that has been heated in the networks based on a wide-ranging factual reality, or is it a matter of steaming a few?

According to the report, the total number of cases opened for property offenses during the year was 122,867. On the other hand, the number of indictments filed reaches 12,427 while the number of arrests - 14,518. The data leaves no room for doubt, the gap is large, but one is missing - some missing Of the cases that culminated in an indictment, ended with a conviction?

The said data is not provided by the police. An indication of the gap can be obtained from the CBS data for 2017, which exceptionally published a report on the data of those convicted in criminal cases. The report also provides another fascinating statistic: 8.4% of all households in Israel were affected by property offenses during the year, with the resulting battery damage amounting to no less than NIS 3.6 billion.

Over the past year, due to the prolonged stay at home, the number of property offenses has dropped drastically and according to updated data, 3.7% of households indicated that they were harmed by a property (apartment) offense.

Reinforcement of the assumption that the police have difficulty dealing with the extent of the phenomenon comes from the State Comptroller, who examined the treatment of property offenses in April-September 2018 and the rate of reporting them.

The findings show that most of the victims of property offenses do not report the commission of the offenses to the police at all.

Also, many of those who did report, are not satisfied with the treatment of the police.

"In these two areas - reporting rates and satisfaction levels - there has been no real improvement in recent years."

The harsh criticism leveled by the comptroller in the report did not end there. He said, “The police do not provide an adequate response to the handling of these offenses and fail to create deterrence towards the offenders.

About one third of the investigations of property crimes conducted by police closed within one or two days from the date of filing of the complaint on the grounds perpetrator unknown, and the chance offender of property seized by the police and indicted is low. "

The auditor also identified a link between that police do not cover all stages of the investigation forensic Before it closes property crime investigation files on the grounds of ALN, and its success rate in deciphering property offenses and the motivation of the public to file a complaint.

He added that despite the large weight of property offenses out of all the offenses, the police have not established procedures and orders regarding the manner required to handle the various property offenses including criteria and criteria for operating the existing investigative measures in the police in these cases.

But the criticism did not end there.

"Police have not been careful to document in the computerized investigation file the unique characteristics of stolen property, which reduces its ability to identify it among all the items of property it seized, locate its rightful owners and link a suspect to the theft offense."

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Adv. Assaf Warsaw

Along with the criticism leveled at the police for the quality of the response it provides to its residents in property offenses, there is another phenomenon that cannot be ignored: insurance fraud, in which property owners file a false complaint about an alleged offense, as a necessary procedure for receiving insurance benefits.

The scope of the phenomenon is enormous.

"Various statistical tests in Israel and around the world show that between 10% and 15% of the claims paid each year by insurance companies originate from fraud," explains Adv. Assaf Warsaw, a senior lawyer in Israel in the field of tort and insurance law. "This is a huge amount of false claims. In a wide variety of insurance industries. Most often, it is a false complaint to the insurer for the loss of a piece of jewelry that did not happen at all, or on the day of burglary and theft to the apartment. Get rid of goods or renovate the business at the expense of the insurance company. "

The phenomenon of insurance fraud gained momentum during the Corona days, the Israeli company Pointer reports in its press release in which it was stated that more and more car owners are cooperating with car thieves and staging car disappearances with the intention of collecting money from insurance companies fraudulently.

"During the past quarter, there was a 46% increase in this theft method compared to the previous quarter and they constitute almost 20% of the volume of thefts. The difficult economic situation and the increase in the percentage of unemployed led many people to 'realize assets'," says Ilan Goldstein, CEO.

Israel Police response: "There has been a dramatic decrease in property offenses"

"This is an audit conducted years ago in which the issues raised were examined and dealt with accordingly. The Israel Police works all year round to enforce the law and reduce property crime throughout the country, invests many efforts and resources and frequently carries out increased enforcement and operational enforcement against gangs and criminals.

" "The rate of reporting to the police has risen significantly in recent years. There has been a dramatic drop of tens of percent in property offenses, primarily due to police activity that includes thousands of arrests and indictments filed against property offenders wherever they are."

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