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“But even in Seattle, which was an outlier in slightly reducing its police budget by about 10 percent, the reduction didn’t affect relevant police operations, and police executives themselves in internal memos identified non-essential duties that armed officers could cut without affecting enforcement of violent crime (such as parking meter ticketing). Indeed, as the local NPR station reported, debunking the “myth” that Seattle police were defunded, “not a single sworn officer has lost their job or pay due to budget constraints.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“Mercy Reed was famed for her instructing: “she ate the luminous material with a spatula to show the girls that it was ‘harmless,’”15 licking it right in front of them.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

“fluctuations in news coverage of police-reported crimes are not determined primarily by police-reported crime rates. Instead, they are more responsive to political occurrences, campaigns, and agendas. Public safety “news” surges when someone wants police-reported crime to be news.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“If you consumed news in 2023, I bet you did not know that the federal government found thousands of child labor violations that year, the most documented violations in two decades.24 But individual stories about vulnerable children are not told in high volume, unless it is a story about police arresting them for something.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News