Police Public Relations Devision Quotes

“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.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“Police employing video propagandists has become more common after the murder of George Floyd.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News