“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
“Your partner doesn’t fight fair.” “Her job is to win. Not to fight fair.” Martial ArtsFighting SpiritPolice OfficerUse Of ForcePolice ReformPolice Procedures Book:The Side Hustle Source: The Side Hustle
“Everything's changing now. It's all patrol cars and fewer feet on the beat. I hope they know what they're doing.” Police Procedures Author:Rennie Airth
“There was something about the story she told us...that didn't seem right to him. He didn't buy the idea they'd been lovers. He reckoned it was something else. It's the sort of thing he used to pick up on, when I worked with him. You know as well as I do, sir, in a case like this you collect all sorts of facts, but only a few really matter, and Mr Madden had a gift for spotting them. Not that he always knew why: often it was just something he felt - a sort of instinct, I suppose - though he would have said it was simply a matter of paying attention. That's what he used to tell me.” MysteryInstinctCluesPolice Procedures Author:Rennie Airth