Four months ago Anat Fliner was murdered in her own home . I was playing Pool with a friend when he got the call. He had to leave to the crime scene. he’s a news reporter and he needed to cover this. I drove him there since i was excited to see what’s going own. After all, it was my hometown of Ramat Hasharon.

Today, the court removed the warrant that kept the investigation details in secrecy. It seems that the only clue that the police allegedly has is a knife. After extensive DNA inspection, they are clueless. The residents of Ramat Hasharon, on the other hand, were afraid of either a conspiracy or just a murderer on the run. You must understand, In Israel around 99% of murder cases are closed quickly with a suspect and an indictment. However, property crimes are not even investigated most of the times. That’s why this case is so Rare.
This possible lead leads possibly to nowhere. The police in Israel have shown once again that they can drag an investigation for four months, and release the fact that they have nothing only when they know it will get no press. Now four months have passed and people forgot. The Fliner case will remain probably open for the next few years, until someone will lift his feet and start doing something.

When it’s cheaper to find offenses such as speeding and disobeying traffic lights, police will prefer to use their ill adjusted budget to find these criminals first – mostly because the state receives money from fines. When it seems more popular to report about Internet meetings which turned out to be daterape, just to scare people off the net, that’s being a police officer. It seems that “To Patronize and Annoy” seems more like a good quote to take.
One of the best ways to examine the trust in one’s police department is to ponder – “When you go on the street and see a police officer, do you feel safer?” I’d love to hear some answers about that…