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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

“In 2023, Walgreens admitted that the company had overblown its prior claims about retail theft, and investigative reporting debunked the hysteria by showing that reported shoplifting was decreasing and that the company had planned the store closures for unrelated business reasons.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“It was the categorization and presentation of these true events into themes with particular causes and effects that distorted reality. It would be like making Michael Jordan appear to be a bad basketball player by compiling a highlight reel that consists entirely of every missed shot in his career. The selective curation of anecdote is an essential mechanism of copaganda.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News