“It benefits the LAPD to have the news describe recommendations for lavish new police spending as the judgment of neutral experts. Imagine what it would look like if an "internal" LAPD report or a report by the company selling police spyware had been the one to recommend more money for more spying on protesters in the wake of the LAPD's widespread crimes. The news's portrayal of the commission report about the LAPD as "independent" is an example of how reporting on police violence becomes a stage in the cycle of police violence.” Civil RightsPolice ReformCopagandaSurveillance StateThe Mafia In BluePolice ViolenceLapdPolice Surveillance Book:Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
“A primary function of police for 150 years has been to surveil, infiltrate, and crush progressive social movements seeking to reduce inequality. It's why police spied on, infiltrated, brutally repressed, and continue to crush labor, feminist, civil rights, anti-war, LGBTQ, environmental, reproductive rights, indigenous, and economic social justice movements.” Civil RightsPolice BrutalityEnvironmentalismReproductive RightsCopagandaThe Mafia In BlueWorkers RightsLabor Rights Book:Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News