Everyone is talking about the democratic and value aspects, I would like to focus on the professional aspect.
I have already written about the prices we paid directly in our personal security as a result of the damage to the independence of the police and its weakening - starting with the non-appointment of a commissioner and continuing with unprecedented cuts, which eliminated the multi-year plan to deepen policing in the Arab sector and abandoned the arena to the criminal organizations.
Naturally, even if the police were to be doubled, they would always live in deficit and delicate balances would be required in the use of force, so as not to leave bare feet when the blanket covers the nose... specific challenges require the Commissioner to remain calm in order to maintain the balance and prevent collapse in untreated areas, not to mention maintain equal policing. Part of maintaining balance requires dealing with political and media pressure, which may result in an extreme diversion of resources and the creation of a visible vacuum, which is immediately filled with crime. Any submission to external pressure produces a police force that "leaves everything" and again "leaves everything" and God forbid, until it becomes clear in retrospect Everything collapses.
Subordinating the police to a minister who is clearly a representative of a certain political party with certain voters, breaks the balance.
What will happen is a sharp diversion of resources and the neglect of issues or areas that will immediately become islands of crime, and the personal security that we spent so much to improve it - will be further damaged.
An increase in apartment break-ins or car thefts is a serious threat to personal security, and the citizen in Herzliya or Jerusalem will not really care that 5,000 police officers are currently in the Negev or the Galilee.
What will the injured citizen do over time?
Will form militias to protect himself.
A serious phenomenon that we are witnessing, which will only get stronger.
They will not volunteer for the Israel Police because "the police is not theirs" but a political-sector one, and they will establish an alternative police.
This would seem logical, until militias without training and authority start shooting in the streets, on suspected criminals.
Just imagine where the police will be drawn to...
When the Arab criminal organizations, together with the northern faction of the Islamic movement, established "security companies", and the state, which froze the policing programs in the Arab sector, abandoned the area to this project - we got the "Guardian of the Walls".
Such ventures are currently growing in all sectors, and are causing social disintegration, an increase in violence, and fatal damage to personal security.
"You did not come to protect the citizens of the Negev from violence and crime, you came to fight the sector" - this is how it was perceived.
The designated minister, Ben Gabir, declares his support for the police, and I welcome that.
I just wonder if the backup will be given to all fronts of police activity.
If I had seen a plan to strengthen the police, which is being built with professionals in the field of criminology and finally puts the police at the head of its happiness, I would be happy.
Unfortunately, this is not what is offered!
Without any in-depth consultations with experts in the field, "on the spot", even before the swearing in of a government, they form a decades-old model and present an alternative, as if it would solve the truth problems that bother us all.
What will happen in the "over-policing" areas that the minister prefers?
Anyone who understands a thing or two about policing knows that enforcement without preventive policing is futile.
Preventive policing in turn is not possible without harnessing the population and building trust in it.
This is not a security action against an enemy across the border, therefore the comparison with the Ministry of Defense is not relevant.
With the proposed approach, sectors will feel attacked and the result will be an increase in crime and a loss of trust, which will cause tremendous damage to the norm of compliance with the law.
Thus, sectors where for political reasons the effort will be concentrated, will suffer from excessive policing without results.
That way you don't encourage crime.
The other sectors or areas that are neglected will be exposed to anarchy where there will be an all-out war and it will be impossible to blame the police for not doing their job.
This time the political echelon that guides the "officials" is the one that will be called to account.
If in Miron the responsibility of the political echelon was indirect and somewhat elusive, then in the following events, God forbid, it will be direct.
It will not be stopped for national security, but in a government that was warned and did not realize that this is a complex and complicated profession, and it is not worth playing with fire...
were we wrong
We will fix it!
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