As part of its Palestine Papers series, Mada al-Carmel – The Arab Center for Applied Social Research has published a new paper titled “New Israeli Police Stations in ‘48 Palestinian Towns: Combating Crime or Expanding Israeli State Control?,” authored by Habeeb Makhoul, a research assistant at Mada al-Carmel who holds a master’s degree in public policy and administration from the University of York, UK.
Over the past two decades, crime rates among the Palestinian Arab population in Israel (also referred to as ‘48 Palestinians or Palestinian citizens of Israel) have risen steadily, with more than 220 people killed annually in criminal incidents since 2023. One of the Israeli government’s main responses has been to establish new police stations in Palestinian towns and villages. After years of implementation, this paper examines whether this policy has been a success or failure.
This paper makes four main contributions. First, it upgrades a contemporary framework for evaluating public policy. Second, it provides a sharper picture of the scale and gravity of the situation by conducting empirical data analysis of murder rates within the ‘48 Palestinian community. Third, it contributes to research on the policing of national minorities by analyzing the effectiveness of the policy of establishing new police stations as a method of combating crime. Finally, the paper addresses leaders within the ‘48 Palestinian community, providing them with academic analysis of the policy and its implications and offering them analytical tools to assist in policy development.
To read the paper in English, click here.
An Arabic translation of the paper will be published shortly.
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