Redlands Police Department

One of the organizations that organize and sponsor these trainings is the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). JINSA is a think tank that advocates for US-Israeli security cooperation, increased domestic military spending, and military aid to Israel, and has board members with close ties to US defense contractors. JINSA launched its Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP) shortly after 9/11, and since 2002 has run annual trips to Israel for US federal, state, and local law enforcement. Over 11,000 additional American law enforcement officials have attended LEEP conferences nationwide, which bring in Israeli security officials as experts.

The Police Department of Redlands, California, is among the departments that have sent delegates to Israel. Jim Bueermann served as Chief of Redlands Police Department between 1998 and 2011. Bueermann attended a training in Israel with JINSA as a delegate of the LEEP program in 2005.

In early 2007, Bueermann was named Honorary Fellow to the Academy of Experimental Criminology. In 2009 he was the first inductee into the Hall of Fame at the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at George Mason University. Bueermann is an Executive Fellow with the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice and senior fellow at George Mason University. He has held a position as President of the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C. since 2012, an organization working to “improve policing through innovation and science.” Bueermann is known for his implementation of community policing and advocacy for evidence-based practice and research-practitioner partnerships.