Police Arrestness In Israel - 1105 Words

When police arrest people in Israel, they are sent to the Prison Authority a national holding facility. Previously before a criminal justice reform that occurred in 2008 police stations had space to jail arrestees (Ater, I., Givati, Y., Rigbi, O., 2014). Currently, arrestees will be only spending a few hours in police custody. This reform freed up resources for the police to focus on crime and not maintaining the jails. The reform was initiated due to an escaped rapist Benny Sela, who escaped police custody (Ater, I., Givati, Y., Rigbi, O., 2014). The Prison Authority specializes in minimizing escapes, unlike the police. This change was to make sure this did not happen again. The number of arrests in Israel went up 11 percent and the†¦show more content†¦This study showed how organizational change can lead to positive outcomes such as cost-saving benefits as well as a decrease of crime. This type of reform can be used in other jurisdictions such as the United States of America in which they do not use a system of incarceration for arrestees like Israel. Community Police Relations The police and their relationship with the community is an important aspect of policing. Israel is known as a deeply divided society which Jews and Arabs relationship with the police greatly differ (Weitzer, 1995). In Israel, Jews have stronger relationships with the police than Arabs in general. The Druze minority group of the Israel is similar to the Jews in regard to the views of the police, but the Christian and Muslim Arabs as well as ultra-orthodox Jews generally share negative relationships with the police. The tension that is prevalent in deeply divided nations has been associated with unfair and unbalance policing that often targets minorities (Weitzer, 1995). The tension between Arabs and the police in Israel have been shown in extreme examples such as during the riots at the Al-Aksa Mosque in the year 2000 (Brym, R. J., Araj, B., 2008). This resulted in 12 Arab Israelis being shot dead in 8 days by police. Cases like this have not happened with Jewish Israeli citizens. Research on the police viewing minorities as a criminal threat