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The Worcester Police Department participates in Amazon’s "Ring network," which as reported in The Verge, "lets law enforcement ask users for footage from their Ring security cameras to assist with investigations." The Ring is an Amazon-produced "video doorbell, which allows Ring users to see, talk to, and record people who come to their doorsteps," and which "sends notifications to a person’s phone every time the doorbell rings or motion near the door is detected."
In 2017, Worcester Police Chief Steven M. Sargent participated in a “counterterrorism seminar” in Israel, as part of an all-expenses-paid delegation of US law enforcement to Israel sponsored by the New England chapter of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The New England Chapter of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) sponsors annual all-expenses-paid delegations to Israel for high-ranking New England police, ICE, FBI, and other security officials, where these officials meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies, with whom they train and exchange tactics including surveillance, racial profiling, crowd control, and the containment of protests.
A newspaper article covering the trip reported: “A part of the seminar that [Chief Sargent] said is relevant to Worcester was discussion about soft targets and lone-wolf terrorists. ‘When you think about it, we have a lot of soft targets,’ he said. 'We have a railroad station, we have the airport, we have a lot of different places.’ Less heavily policed than other locations, places like malls and busy intersections have become targets of terrorists. Lone-wolf terrorists, those working on their own without the support of larger organizations, are also a growing problem, not just in the United States, but also a main focus even in the Middle East, the chief said. The group discussed dealing with those threats through better intelligence and planning for public events, he said.”