Suffolk County 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 Suffolk County, New York, is among the departments whose police chiefs have advised JINSA. Chief James Burke was on JINSA’s Board of Advisors for its LEEP trainings. He was arrested in 2015, on charges of assaulting a handcuffed suspect and conspiring to cover it up during a federal grand jury investigation.