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LA City Council Considers Funding Former IDF Soldiers to Patrol Its Streets (theintercept.com)

submitted 7 months ago by girlfreddy to c/[email protected]

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THE LOS ANGELES City Council is considering whether to give public funds to private, armed security patrols to protect its religious communities, following a protest against the marketing of West Bank settlement properties at an LA synagogue last month that turned violent.

In the immediate wake of the incident, city council members introduced a motion to give $1 million to several Jewish security organizations that would expand their work around Jewish schools, religious institutions, and neighborhoods.

Magen Am, a nonprofit that runs armed patrol services and firearm training programs for the Jewish community, was named as the recipient of $350,000 in the motion. The group is largely made up of former Israeli soldiers, along with U.S. military veterans, according to the group’s website and social media posts, and was founded by a former MMA fighter with ties to the National Rifle Association. The majority of the former Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the group are “lone soldiers,” according to several reports, the term for individuals with no direct ties to the state of Israel who immigrated there to serve in the nation’s military.

“The fact that Magen Am was even named in that original motion as a recipient of money, that exposes the intention,” said Miguel Camnitzer, an activist with Jewish Voice for Peace. The group is alarmed that city leaders are choosing to fund individuals who served a military that commits ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.

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[–] Beaver 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bro why them specifically aren’t the local cops bad enough?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Cops are, ostensibly public security guards. their jobs aren't to protect private property. That's what private security guards are for. (aka contract security).

There are times where the police will allow you to hire an off-duty cop to come and do cop-things on your property as a way to earn some extra funds. (the cops get overtime pay, the department gets a cut.) It includes things like traffic direction and sitting in their cars watching drunks come out of bars (hoping that the drunks notice and don't start shit. works half the time, if we're being honest.)

Also cops make extremely shitty security guards. (experience says that cops tend to pick fights instead of using soft skills.). I suspect these guys are going to be much worse.... and I hadn't thought that was possible.