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“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Debbie.
― Debbie.
“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”
― Debbie.
― Debbie.
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”
― Debbie.
― Debbie.
“This is what I love to see--different branches of law enforcement at each other's throats. It gives the bad guys the head start they need, which in turn gives us all job security.”
― Breaking Point
― Breaking Point
“When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe”
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“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it”
― Debbie.
― Debbie.
“...when one considers that there are more than 750,000 police officers in the United States and that these officers have tens of millions of interactions with citizens each year, it is clear that police shootings are extremely rare events and that few officers--less than one-half of 1 percent each year--ever shoot anyone.”
― Into the Kill Zone: A Cop's Eye View of Deadly Force
― Into the Kill Zone: A Cop's Eye View of Deadly Force
“I always thought,' I said, 'that a man became a cop to be shielded from his own criminality.”
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“If you want to get to the heart of the dope problem, legalize it . . . [Prohibition is] a law, in operation, that can only be used against the poor.”
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“There is a gulf between the image and reality of the punishment bureaucracy. Copaganda creates that gulf. It is the system of government and news media propaganda that promotes mass incarceration, justifies the barbarities and profits that accompany it, and distorts our sense of what threatens us and what keeps us safe.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“The first job of copaganda is to narrow our conception of threat. Rather than the bigger threats to our safety caused by people with power, we narrow our conception to crimes committed by the poorest, most vulnerable people in our society.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“The second job of copaganda is to manufacture crises and panics about this narrow category of threats.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“Copaganda leaves the public in a vague state of fear. It manufactures suspicions against poor people, immigrants, and racial minorities rather than, say, bankers, pharmaceutical executives, fraternity brothers, landlords, employers, and polluters.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“The third job of copaganda is to convince the public to spend more money on the punishment bureaucracy by framing police, prosecutors, probation, parole, and prisons as effective solutions to interpersonal harm. Copaganda links safety to the things the punishment bureaucracy does, while downplaying the connection between safety and the material, structural conditions of people's lives.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“Cultural copaganda is all around us--from the CIA , starting in the 1950s funding projects like the Iowa Writers' Workshop or fronting literary magazines to influence modern journalism and fiction writing, to the DEA paying Hollywood in the 1990s to insert drug war propaganda into popular television shows, to the vast array of police and military consultants who shape every fictional TV series, podcast, or movie that touches on crime. Shows like COPS and Law & Order have done a lot to distort society's understanding of what the punishment bureaucracy does.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“The entire genre of police procedurals mythologizes punishment bureaucrats and the allegedly sophisticated technologies they wield. And it's not just Hollywood--fictional copaganda planned and paid for by the police and their industry allies is on TikTok and Youtube, and it's behind many community groups, online posts, neighborhood listserv emails, and charitable campaigns that seem genuine to the unassuming public.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“The concept and terminology of "mugging" as opposed to, say, "robbery" was created as part of the panic, even though there was no evidence that this ill-defined activity was increasing. This is similar to the creation of the term "carjacking" in Detroit in the early 1990s.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“On the day Chicago police murdered Laquan McDonald, a seventeen-year-old Black teenager, in 2014, Chicago cops had six full-time public relations employees. As the city fought in court to keep evidence of the child's murder secret and then later to control the uproar when a judge ordered it to release a video of the shooting, Chicago increased its police budget to pay for twenty-five full-time positions devoted to manipulating public information. The 2024 budget funded fifty-five.
Chicago is not alone. Cities across the country spend enormous amounts on police PR, and even elected officials are often kept in the dark about it.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Chicago is not alone. Cities across the country spend enormous amounts on police PR, and even elected officials are often kept in the dark about it.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“Police employing video propagandists has become more common after the murder of George Floyd.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“If you're an amateur, professional, or aspiring journalist in any city in the U.S., a good story for you would be to dig into the budget and number of employees that your local police department devotes to all forms of public relations. There's a reason they try to hide it.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“Philando Castile, a school cafeteria worker who frequently paid for the lunches of kids who couldn't afford to eat, was stopped for minor traffic issues fifty-two times before he was stopped for a broken tail light and shot to death by police with his girlfriend filming.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“Expect some of your confiscated personal property to be damaged or lost when the police return it to you.”
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“Denial of drinking water by police officers to dehydrated prisoners is a human rights abuse.”
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“Police officers are known to put their prisoners into overheated police cars to dehydrate and heat them up.”
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“One of the hardest concepts about explaining deadly force is that so few people have a frame of reference. The cannot really grasp what it is to use deadly force or what it will be like to exist even for a few seconds in the conditions that would justify it.”
― Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
― Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
“One of the hardest concepts about explaining deadly force is that so few people have a frame of reference. They cannot really grasp what it is to use deadly force or what it will be like to exist even for a few seconds in the conditions that would justify it.”
― Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
― Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
“I use the term "punishment bureaucracy" instead of "criminal justice system" because it is a more accurate and less deceptive way to describe the constellation of public and private institutions that develop, enforce, and profit from criminal law.”
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
― Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
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