Seems a little wrong to me.
It might sound like the stuff of click bait or satire, but a new New York Police Department branch has in fact been opened in Israel of all places.
The NYPD has been characterized by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a “private army.” He’s not far off. The NYPD is actually bigger-than-the-FBI. While they have extensive counterterrorism operations, the NYPD has vastly overstated their effectiveness and their track record. That’s the sort of propaganda-meeting-cover-ups that a “private army” can pull off.
What the NYPD really means by “counterterrorism” is their controversial spying programs and the unconstitutional “stop and frisk” policies, which have been proven to disproportionately target so-called “minority” communities.
But now, the Middle East newspaper Al-Monitor, has documented the bizarre opening of an NYPD branch in Israel’s Sharon District Police headquarters in Kfar Saba.
This branch has been put together along with former Israeli and veteran NYPD detective, Charlie Ben-Naim.
Ben-Naim is himself a former Israeli, who seems to have retained dual citizenship in the U.S. He moved to New York originally to marry a local resident, and soon after joined the NYPD.
Even weirder than the opening of this NYPD branch in Israel is that Ben-Naim is the only officer stationed there.
As strange as all of this sounds, NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said back in 2010 that, “the NYPD has a great brand overseas. There’s high expectations that come with these postings and we want to meet it, so that means a very careful selection process on our end.”
Such foreign branches of this “private army” include stations in London, Lyons, Hamburg, Toronto, and Tel Aviv, according to New York
It might sound like the stuff of click bait or satire, but a new New York Police Department branch has in fact been opened in Israel of all places.
The NYPD has been characterized by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a “private army.” He’s not far off. The NYPD is actually bigger-than-the-FBI. While they have extensive counterterrorism operations, the NYPD has vastly overstated their effectiveness and their track record. That’s the sort of propaganda-meeting-cover-ups that a “private army” can pull off.
What the NYPD really means by “counterterrorism” is their controversial spying programs and the unconstitutional “stop and frisk” policies, which have been proven to disproportionately target so-called “minority” communities.
But now, the Middle East newspaper Al-Monitor, has documented the bizarre opening of an NYPD branch in Israel’s Sharon District Police headquarters in Kfar Saba.
This branch has been put together along with former Israeli and veteran NYPD detective, Charlie Ben-Naim.
Ben-Naim is himself a former Israeli, who seems to have retained dual citizenship in the U.S. He moved to New York originally to marry a local resident, and soon after joined the NYPD.
Even weirder than the opening of this NYPD branch in Israel is that Ben-Naim is the only officer stationed there.
As strange as all of this sounds, NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said back in 2010 that, “the NYPD has a great brand overseas. There’s high expectations that come with these postings and we want to meet it, so that means a very careful selection process on our end.”
Such foreign branches of this “private army” include stations in London, Lyons, Hamburg, Toronto, and Tel Aviv, according to New York
