University of Texas Southwestern Police Department

Name: University of Texas Southwestern Police Department
Address: 6303 Forest Park Road, Tower 2, Suite BLC.200, Dallas, Texas, 75235, United States
Telephone: 214-648-8311

Dallas, Texas, United States

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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 Police Department of the University of Texas Southwestern is among the departments that have hosted delegates from the Israel National Police. Michael J. Heidingsfield has served as Director of the University of Texas Southwestern Police Department since 2011. Director Heidingsfield delivered a training to the Israel National Police on “violence de-escalation,” and gave a presentation at the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities where one of the sessions included “ideas [on] how to tackle […] controversies” like the “movements to boycott/divestment/sanction Israel” on campus.
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