Riverside Sheriff’s Department

Name: Riverside Sheriff's Department
Address: 4095 Lemon St, Riverside, California, 92501, United States
Telephone: (951) 955-2400

Riverside, California, United States

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: (951) 955-2400

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In 2002, just months after 9/11, American police officers held their first official training expedition to Israel to learn about “counter-terrorism.” Since then, hundreds of law enforcement officials and government agents from across the country have been sent to Israel to meet with military and police forces, and thousands more have participated in conferences, trainings, and workshops with Israeli officials in the United States.

The American and Israeli governments justify these exchanges on the grounds that the United States and Israel share the mission of the War on Terror. American facilitators and participants of these programs similarly argue that the United States and Israel are allied democracies whose law enforcement agencies play a crucial role in preserving national security.

While framed as an opportunity for US law enforcement to learn policing strategies from a closely aligned democracy with counter-terror experience, in fact these are trainings with an occupying force that rules a population deprived of human and civil rights. Rather than promoting security for all, these programs facilitate an exchange of methods of state violence and control, including mass surveillance, racial profiling, and suppression of protest and dissent.

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The Sheriff’s Department of Riverside, California, is among the departments that have trained with former Israeli security officials. Officials serving in the Riverside Sheriff’s Department attended a training in 2016 at the department’s Ben Clark Training Center that was taught by David Harel, a recent retiree from the Israeli Shin Bet. The course covered objectives such as current trends in global terror, democratic dilemmas, and real-world examples and lessons learned on dealing with the threat of terrorism.
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