NSO Investigation: Police Injured - But More Public | Israel today

The NSO investigation emerged into the world air with a loud shout, which currently looks like a weak response.

As always, the only loser in the spin competition that has run here in recent weeks - is the public.

As long as the latest tests and publications turn out to be correct, contrary to what was claimed in the Calcalist investigation, the police are apparently not tracking or spying on the country's citizens wholesale.

But in the crazy reality where more than once the lie and the truth alternate between them, there is no chance that the convinced will be convinced.

For a month the country was flooded with an ocean of spins that relied solely on claims.

The tyrants were so powerful that they managed to stop even the most surveyed trial in the last decade.

From a democratic state we have become a state of Stasi.

Advocates of individual rights suddenly heard a call to immediately arrest a commissioner and a spokesman, both former.

Why?

based on what?

And what about the presumption of innocence?

In the end, beyond a fatal breach of public trust in the police, the main victims are us, the public.

Not only was there a real impairment in the police's ability to act against the criminals following the freeze imposed on it due to the allegations against it until the end of the investigations, the criminals now have a broader awareness of the police's capabilities, which the organization tried to keep close to the chest.

Especially in these days, when crime families are raising their heads, and when the fight between them leads to explosions in the streets and a real fear of harming even innocent civilians, it is critical to allow the police to use their technological tools in an orderly and legal manner.

His rehabilitation forces the police to return to the working methods that were customary decades ago, or, alternatively, to reinvent themselves and take more sophisticated actions that come to compensate for the technological damage.

The importance of Calcalist research is in regulating the use of these tools.

If they have a "smoking gun" - they will expose it, for the benefit of us all. Until then, the police must be given back their capabilities. And we must also admit, Israel is not a police state.

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