Let's start with the known: the current Commissioner, Chief Superintendent Kobi Shabtai, managed to fulfill a task that many thought was almost impossible:
He looked with pride at the bar lower than the Dead Sea set by his predecessor in the position, Roni Alsheich, and succeeded - with the help of a lot of work and noteworthy investment - to lower the bar of the Israel Police's performance even more.
In his short time, the Israel Police became an even more degenerate and irrelevant body among large sections of the population.
If there were any doubts about this, a teaser for an in-depth interview with Shabtai in "Yediot Ahronoth" erased them all.
Spoiler: the disaster in Miron?
The pogroms in the cities involved?
The Wild South?
It's not him, it's them.
All kinds of "them": the government, political parties, Adi Beatty, the corona and the weather.
Statistically, there is a reasonable chance that by the time the full interview is published, an Israeli citizen from Samaria or Benjamin will be attacked and robbed on the road: an Arab vehicle will "accidentally" hit her from behind, she will go out to exchange details, will be violently slammed to the ground and her vehicle will disappear.
About the time you read the second page, you will receive another message on the community WhatsApp of one of the southern settlements that you should avoid this or that road in the coming hours because of stones, or because of convoys of jeeps with passengers shooting into the air.
By the end of the article, about 20 Shabaim will be released from a one-and-a-half-minute interrogation, one of whom will (God forbid) be a twin of the same Shabaim who was released last week to carry out an attack in Holon, and at the same time - the detention of an elderly man with a mime who muttered a prayer on the Temple Mount will be extended.
The current situation is that the Israel Police has idealistic and purposeful personnel - all of whom are neutered, trained in the senior ranks and try to avoid at all costs anything that might complicate them.
When this is the case, people may pay attention, not us, and therefore the police make sure to demonstrate a presence, but only one that will look good on the media level.
And the mainstream media, let's remember here, is parodic and semi-racist, and it invests most of its resources in trying to create a false narrative that there is violence mainly on one side (and it is not the Arab side).
Thus it turns out that the majority of Israeli citizens are facing a police force that may not only stand by, but may even go against them, and the residents of Samaria who met him as an area commander will testify to this.
And the climax of the teaser with Shabtai, the one that symbolizes everything that is dangerous, bad, rotten and dysfunctional in the way he conducts himself - in the next riots (that will come), Shabtai declares, he will roll up his sleeves and do the only thing that will stop terrorism in Israel: he will block the social networks.
"We are a democratic country, but there is a limit."
Deep in the midst of the previous disturbances, when Arabs burned apartments and lynched passers-by, most of the Israeli population did not know about it (because the media did not bother to report).
Three days of terror in the streets of Lod, Ramla and Acre - and there is no police in the city.
Besieged residents repeatedly called the police, and were answered with "it will be fine, they are taking care" at best, and "you again?"
in the more common cases.
The awakening began when the residents of the cities broadcast and reported from the field to the networks.
Then the excuses ran out for Shabati, and he was forced to send forces, which, of course, were initially concerned with preventing Jewish volunteers from arriving in the city - after all, there is no greater danger to the police than citizens who prove that the police are not working.
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