# Police Commander Boaz Blatt Criticizes Israeli Law Enforcement - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119497008113438931 - Source account: [@amit_segal](https://x.com/amit_segal) - Source language: Hebrew - Target language: English - Duration: 2:14 - Published: 2026-11-09 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/he/%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%91-%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%96-%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%98-%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A3-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%97-%D7%A9.md ## Transcript [0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=1) Boaz Balat has been serving for two years as head of the Investigations and Intelligence Division. [0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=4) It is doubtful that his subordinates in the police and his colleagues in the State Attorney's Office know what he really thinks about the performance of the law enforcement system. [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=11) For example, the harsh accusation against the State Attorney's Office, never voiced from within the system, that they keep criminal files on people to pressure them. [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=18) I'm not saying that the police are impressed, yes. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=21) You don't have— there are quite a few incidents here that any reasonable person understands are armored personnel carrier cases. [0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=27) You know, these are levers of pressure on important people that they put in an APC. The police do nothing with them and the police deal with them as the final stage of an investigation. [0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=36) Balat also made a similar extraordinary accusation about the Police Internal Investigations Department. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=39) They'll always hold the power to summon you for questioning over your head. [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=41) They use all kinds of creative solutions, too. [0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=45) If you've exaggerated, or gone too far in some way. [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=46) All they have to do is summon you now over your thoughts. [0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=49) In the recordings, Balat makes even more far-reaching claims. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=52) There is no State Attorney's Office in Israel, he says, certainly not for cases involving the Arab sector. [0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=56) Files sitting in a cabinet, gathering dust, with nothing being done about them, until a wave of friends comes along now and then. [1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=61) Hello, what's going on? I'm talking about a closed case. [1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=63) So what do you want? Today, the State of Israel's prosecution service isn't being run. It isn't being run. [1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=67) It's being run solely by one person called a public police officer. [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=70) He keeps ordering it now, as if it doesn't reach them, as if it has nothing to do with her. [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=73) Superintendent Balat also accuses the police, whose officers and staff are simply trembling with fear of Arab crime families. [1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=79) Every encounter between a cop and a criminal ends with a report filed at the siren's hour. [1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=83) Okay, but there's a lot more to that report. [1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=86) I call it a kind of courage index. Why? Because in the past, if the bulletins were checking him twenty times a year, today you'll see they don't check him even once a year. [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=95) Okay, why doesn't anyone want to rub him the wrong way? [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=98) So one time, a policewoman is sitting with the officer, and the officer doesn't want to come and engage in contact in the first place. [1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=103) With an offender who can come and go from it afterward, once the report— the report is filed. [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=109) Uh, you have incidents where an officer walks by and frames the look or you see a sidelong glance, as if interested in what happened. [1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=114) You know how many interactions there are today, how many embraces with offenders today, and you see that as the years go by, you have fewer such interactions. [2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=122) The police are afraid, the Police Internal Investigations Department extorts, the prosecution neglects, the justice system keeps open cases as leverage. [2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/EBu4iMJRZMh5/en/police-commander-boaz-blatt-criticizes-israeli-law-enforcement?t=128) A very harsh indictment of the man who lives at the police station, collecting evidence.