“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.” Law EnforcementCriminal Justice SystemMedia ManipulationCopagandaThe Mafia In BluePunishment BureaucracyPolice ProceduresPolice Public Relations DevisionCops Are Defunding Our CitiesPolice Murder Of Laquan Mcdonald Book:Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News