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19 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
In 2014, LAPD brass went on a tour of Israel where they "visited private security firms and drone manufacturers." They "lit up when talking about a new tethered drone that was just released to IDF."

A few months later LAPD announced a drone program. jewishjournal.com/news/united-st…
Israel has one of the most advanced weapons industries in the world, exporting technology to police everywhere. How long before we see these tear gas drones, used this week in the West Bank, by US police? haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
This trip to Israel also covered data systems, with LAPD officials attending a Big Data Intelligence Conference. "That’s the wave of the future," LAPD's deputy chief said.

Data-driven policing is now a cornerstone of LAPD violence and dispossession. jewishjournal.com/news/united-st…
"We’re here to steal some of your great ideas," declared LAPD's IT bureau commander. "And a lot of great ideas and technology, indeed, you do have here in Israel."

Yet @lapdcommission and @SteveSoboroff yesterday tried silencing every comment on IDF ties to LAPD as "irrelevant."

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19 May
Today several community members went to @lapdcommission to condemn LAPD collaboration and trainings with IDF. @SteveSoboroff and Commission President @lapdcommission immediately moved to silence them, saying this criticism was irrelevant.
Israel’s ties to LAPD and other police forces run deep, and the learning goes both ways. Since 2002, thousands of US police and federal officials have travelled from the US to Israel to train with Israeli forces.
Israel is one of the world’s most violent, lethal frontiers of settler-colonial violence. Police everywhere are eager to adopt their tactics and technologies, and Israel is happy to advance white supremacist policing everywhere.
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22 Mar
We recently found emails between @Target executives and @LAPDChiefMoore from last summer. They’re part of Target's long history of working closely with police forces across the country. Thread:
Barely 48 hours after George Floyd’s murder, Target emailed Moore: “Issues in Minneapolis - Translating to LA?”

The email began, “At Target HQ we often discuss that when all is said and done, we believe history will say that California got it right.” The fuck does that mean?
A couple hours later, @LAPDChiefMoore writes that “a BLM organized demo" with "verbal assaults on our people.” As people across the country were starting to condemn policing, Moore was whining to @Target that people yelled at cops.
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16 Mar
BREAKING: Along with @LACANetwork @BLMLA and 39 other community groups, we just sent City Council a letter about the new City Council report on LAPD's violence last summer. The report is a bold attempt to win LAPD more resources and spy powers. drive.google.com/file/d/1MCQIgu…
As we wrote in @KNOCKdotLA today: “It should surprise no one that this investigation, featuring almost zero effort to hear from the community, offers nothing but calls to expand policing. It’s hard to see this review as anything but a police coup.” knock-la.com/lapd-report-pr…
This report was written by a team of six LAPD veterans and insiders after interviewing 100+ police (and exactly 10 community members, all handpicked by City Council).

What does their police-fed investigation conclude? They say LAPD needs more resources and surveillance powers.
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15 Mar
Three months ago @lapdcommission removed this disclaimer from of its motions accepting @LAPoliceFdtn gifts: "To the best of our knowledge, there are no potential factors that may give the appearance of a conflict of interest in accepting this donation."
These gifts are how LAPD gets hooked on dangerous weapons that they use on the community. In 2002, @CommissBratton had @LAPoliceFdtn ask @Target (yes Target) for $200k to buy @PalantirTech for LAPD.

Once hooked on Palantir, LAPD went on to spend millions of tax $$ on it.
The @LAPoliceFdtn is also a front for the surveillance industry to buy influence with LAPD, as @awinston and @DarwinBondGraha have written: propublica.org/article/privat…
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14 Mar
What base is this work accountable to?
A month ago we asked: who are reform professionals like @barryfriemdan1 accountable to when they push their harmful proposals?
Looking at their website, @policingproject's accountability is clear. Their Advisory Board is half police officials, plus surveillance executives, @CatoInstitute, and @CKinstitute. That's who @barryfriedman1 is “Reimagining Public Safety” with. policingproject.org/our-advisory-b…
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19 Feb
Two law professors just wrote this LA Times op-ed proposing various police reforms.

Who asked for these? This is another example of reform professionals offering prescriptions to strengthen policing with no accountability to those who will be harmed. latimes.com/opinion/story/…
The first author is @barryfriedman1. What base is he accountable to?

His sole link to LA that we're aware of is @LAPoliceFdtn paying him $18,000 to help sanitize and legitimize LAPD's body cam surveillance. You would think an op-ed about policing might mention this payment.
The op-ed’s main proposal is legislation standardizing police use of force, probably the ALI model bill @barryfriedman1 wrote.

Well, California two years ago enacted a bill that ALI claims is based on this model. Police here then killed more people in 2020 than 2019 and 2018.
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