Public Trust in Government Plummeting
Public Trust in Government Plummeting by Hana Levi Julian(IsraelNN.com) A new poll published by the Center for the Study of Crime Law and Society at the University of Haifa has revealed that only 14 percent of the Jewish Israeli public has complete trust in the Israel Police Force.
Professor Arye Rattner, director of the Center, said by contrast, that more than double that number, 38.5 percent of those surveyed expressed a total lack of trust in police.
The numbers have steadily dropped since 2002, when 50 percent of the public reported that they trusted the police force and only 13 percent expressed a lack of trust.
This...may lead to demonstrations of contempt for the rule of law.
Within a year, the number of Israelis who expressed a high level of trust in police had dropped to 36 percent, although the number of those who said they did not trust law enforcement officers remained at 13 percent.Prof. Rattner said the statistics are ominous signs that the social fabric of the Jewish State is being strained to a point that the damage may soon cause a rise in crime and social services statistics.
“The results of the survey point to a serious blow to the legitimacy the Israeli public grants – or doesn’t grant – to the police,” said Rattner. “This loss of legitimacy may lead to demonstrations of contempt for the rule of law and a decrease in the level of respect for and compliance with the law,” he added.
Researchers questioned 1,625 Jewish Israelis over the past several weeks as part of a multi-year study that has tracked the level of trust in the country’s police force since 2000.
Faith in a different sector of Jewish leadership has also dropped to record lows, according to a Geocartographia poll released this week.
An overwhelming majority of 74.4 percent of the respondents said they favor dissolving the Knesset, the highest figures since former Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak was forced to call elections less than two years after being voted into office.
The problem is that without new blood to lead Israel we are just recycling the people that have brought Israel to this situation.
So Olmert leaves office and Israel has elections and we have a new Prime Minister wo is part of the gang of cowards, scum and traitors and are in the Knesset, what have we solved?
Nothing.
In fact the situation will grow even worse since in the new government we will have all the same old problems with no solutions and the public will grow even more distrustful of the government.
