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Police departments spend vast sums of money creating “Copaganda”

Originally published: Economic Hardship Reporting Project on July 20, 2022 by Alec Karakatsanis (more by Economic Hardship Reporting Project) | (Posted Jul 28, 2022)

U.S. police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what public safety means, what threatens it, and how to solve it.