A senior officer in the Israel Police resigned her post on Tuesday over what she characterized as the politicization of the force under the current government.

Supt. Lee Pearl-Bahiri, a former officer in the police National Headquarters’ investigations division, claimed that law enforcement had shifted its priorities and become financially strained in recent years, leading her to quit after nearly three decades of service.

Pearl-Bahiri said that she had always acted as the law enforcement system’s “public defender” in conversations with her friends, but grew disillusioned since the accession of the current government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I found myself in a very sensitive position, being exposed to things incompatible with the values I’ve always held,” she said.

Since then, she claimed, a range of pressing issues have been placed on the back burner, including tackling organized crime, car and workplace accidents, sexual offenses, violence against women, and crime in the Arab sector.

“All of it was pushed aside. ‘That’s not important right now,’ they told me,” she recounted in a Facebook post published after her resignation.

Instead, she was instructed to focus on Jewish residents’ noise complaints about mosques broadcasting the call to prayer and........

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