More than 90% of complaints against police not investigated, ministry says
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.617629 Most complaints against Israeli police are not investigated, ministry says - National More than 93 percent of complaints against police officers sent to the Justice Ministry over the past three years have been closed without action or have simply not been investigated, the ministry says. “The police are gradually acquiring characteristics of the police in South America,” MK Ilan Gilon (Meretz) told Haaretz. “UItimately, there has to be a correlation between the number of complaints and the number of cases.” Figures on complaints to the ministry's department that investigates the police have been released to Adalah, an Arab minority rights group, to comply with the Freedom of Information Law. Adalah has processed a number of complaints in recent months. In November, Bothina Ladkani said she had been pushed by a member of the riot police during a demons