The LAPD sent officers to train in Israel. Officials can't explain what they learned

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Over the last decade, the Los Angeles Police Department sent employees to Israel to train or be trained by the country’s counterterrorism experts on at least nine occasions.But officers who attended these training sessions and dozens of other overseas seminars and conferences routinely failed to document what they learned or keep track of who they met with.Those are among the findings of a new report from the Police Commission’s Office of the Inspector General, which found that the department lacks a system for tracking employees who train with law enforcement agencies from around the world.The LAPD’s relationship with Israeli security forces has come under scrutiny amid the country’s ongoing military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, which has caused tens of thousands of deaths and drawn allegations of genocide.

California Five United Arab Emirates officers graduate from L.A.’s Police Academy, raising new questions about LAPD ties to overseas law enforcement, including Israeli security forces.Apart from visits to Israel, LAPD officials have traveled to Italy and France in preparation for hosting the Olympics, and visited countries around the world, from Mexico to Thailand, for various gatherings to discuss investigative techniques and police tactics.The inspector general’s report examined 117 “foreign training activities” attended by 243 LAPD employees since 2014, seeking to determine how and why they benefited the department.LAPD officials said the department hadn’t adopted any “tactics, altered policies, or developed training programs” based on the trips abroad, but the report’s authors said the dearth of records made that claim impossible to verify.Department officials are required to seek permission for traveling for department-related business, but the report found that a lack of proper record-keeping meant investigators were “unable to evaluate th...