A ban on DC police training in Israel would make minorities less safe

A silly new group, “Occupation Free DC,” is calling on Washington’s police force to suspend police training visits to Israel.

The group says that Metropolitan Police Department’s engagement with Israeli training programs is “illegal” and endangers D.C. citizens. Banning the training, the group claims, would be an action that “makes DC safer for people of color, Muslims, Jews, queer people, and all others threatened in these hateful times.” This is because, we are told, “”these trips serve as an exchange of worst [policing] practices.”