Cop Tense Quotes

“Copaganda obscures the active role police play in doing bad things. Many people have criticized the police-invented term "officer-involved shooting" because it obscures who is responsible.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“The "police shortage" articles assuming the need to preserve or increase the current number of armed police officers are really about something else: the question of whether our society wants to reduce key forms of inequality or not.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“Because of the fearmongering about poor people and unhoused people through around-the-clock coverage of anecdotal stranger crimes, the news has conditioned people to misunderstand the nature of risk and vulnerability.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“When police violence reemerges as a sustained news theme every few years, the words "accountability" and "transparency" are sprinkled into story after story and used as a substitute for informed discussion about the terrible track record of specific policies and broader discussions about how and whether it's even possible to make armed police forces less violent and corrupt as they are currently constituted.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“Ignoring her election victory as evidence that a lot of voters liked her positions, the journalists quoted one person on the street to prove her unpopularity. The random person stated that police were "underpaid," that they were necessary to "keep order," and that he was opposed to their abolition. Where did the intrepid Times reporters unearth this supposedly ordinary person? Outside a memorial for the two police officer at a police station.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“Copaganda frames police violence as the product of "bad apples," which it contrasts with the supposedly benevolent behavior of most police.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“An emerging vanguard of copaganda is rebranding repressive policies as compassionate. Politicians around the country are increasingly using the concept of "care" to describe policies of violence that jail unhoused people and criminalize people for their mental illness.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News