St. Ann Police Department

One of the organizations that sponsors these trainings is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL is a non-profit that works to combat anti-Semitism and advocate for Israel. In this context, the ADL runs a National Counter-Terrorism Seminar that has sent hundreds of top ranking officials to Israel to learn about combatting terror since 2003. That same year the ADL established an Advanced Training School that brings delegations of Israeli law enforcement to speak to American law enforcement officials, involving over 1,000 U.S. participants since the program began.

The Police Department of St. Ann, Missouri, is among the departments that have sent delegates to Israel. Chuck Thal served as Major of St. Ann Police Department, and attended a training in Israel with the ADL in 2017. Thal denied that his training in Israel displayed prejudice or oppression, yet claimed to have learned valuable lessons from the Israeli airport security system which is based entirely on racial profiling.