CreepyMcCreeperson
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How does that get addressed, and solved?
As violence returns to '90s level, so does response from Black leadership, Oakland NAACP asks city to get tougher on crime/* Mayor & DA recalled
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Godless Socialist CEO
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The last article is the most relevant. LATimes had a big story on their policie departments spending on PR a while back
Police PR machine under scrutiny for inaccurate reporting, alleged pro-cop bias
Amid calls to defund police, the public relations machine within law enforcement is coming under scrutiny.
www.latimes.com
Asheville police 'transparency advisers' push filler, social media clout: public records
The Citizen Times obtained emails between Asheville police and a public relations firm hired to push social media content.
www.citizen-times.com
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”
US 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.
jacobin.com
Copaganda does three main things. First, it narrows our understanding of safety. Police get us to focus on crimes committed by the poorest, most vulnerable people in our society and not on bigger threats to our safety caused by people with wealth and power.
"But through the stories cops feed reporters, the public is encouraged to measure a city’s safety by whether it saw an annual increase or decrease of three homicides or fourteen robberies — rather than by how many people died from lack of access to health care, how many children suffered lead poisoning, how many families were rendered homeless by illegal eviction or foreclosure, or how many thousands of illegal assaults police committed.
The second function of copaganda is to manufacture crises or “crime surges.” For example, if you watch the news, you’ve probably been bombarded with stories about the rise of retail theft. Yet the actual data shows there has been no significant increase. Instead, corporate retailers, police, and PR firms fabricated talking points and fed them to the media. The same is true of what the FBI categorizes as “violent crime.” All told, major “index crimes” tracked by the FBI are at nearly forty-year lows.
The third and most pernicious function of copaganda is to manipulate our understanding of what solutions actually work to make us safer. A primary goal of copaganda is to convince the public to spend even more money on police and prisons. If safety is defined by street crime, and street crime is dangerously high, then funding the carceral state leaps out to many people as a natural solution."
itsyoung!!
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Im confused, so what is your solution?
How does a local government address poverty?
Most people in poverty are not committing crimes
Carjacking someone so you can use their vehicle to joyride, commit armed robberies, and shoot other people is what constitutes as poverty? Nice
itsyoung!!
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Again, im confused, are you in here denying that crime is high right now? What are the points you are trying to push in here?The last article is the most relevant. LATimes had a big story on their policie departments spending on PR a while back
Police PR machine under scrutiny for inaccurate reporting, alleged pro-cop bias
Amid calls to defund police, the public relations machine within law enforcement is coming under scrutiny.
Asheville police 'transparency advisers' push filler, social media clout: public records
The Citizen Times obtained emails between Asheville police and a public relations firm hired to push social media content.
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”
US 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.
Copaganda does three main things. First, it narrows our understanding of safety. Police get us to focus on crimes committed by the poorest, most vulnerable people in our society and not on bigger threats to our safety caused by people with wealth and power.
"But through the stories cops feed reporters, the public is encouraged to measure a city’s safety by whether it saw an annual increase or decrease of three homicides or fourteen robberies — rather than by how many people died from lack of access to health care, how many children suffered lead poisoning, how many families were rendered homeless by illegal eviction or foreclosure, or how many thousands of illegal assaults police committed.
The second function of copaganda is to manufacture crises or “crime surges.” For example, if you watch the news, you’ve probably been bombarded with stories about the rise of retail theft. Yet the actual data shows there has been no significant increase. Instead, corporate retailers, police, and PR firms fabricated talking points and fed them to the media. The same is true of what the FBI categorizes as “violent crime.” All told, major “index crimes” tracked by the FBI are at nearly forty-year lows.
The third and most pernicious function of copaganda is to manipulate our understanding of what solutions actually work to make us safer. A primary goal of copaganda is to convince the public to spend even more money on police and prisons. If safety is defined by street crime, and street crime is dangerously high, then funding the carceral state leaps out to many people as a natural solution."
Godless Socialist CEO
Superstar
Most people who commit crimes live in poverty. You do this all the time
I don't like this shyt where "crime" means "black crime" or is a codeword for black people. The NAACP telling people "it's not racist to speak out about crime" and implying that all the crime in a metropolitan area is black people is some bullshyt. THOSE OTHER GROUPS ARE COMMITTING CRIMES TOO.
Copaganda is real. I get it. In ATL they over hyped crime stats and made every politician bend to that whim. But the problem is people dont want any of it and you're going to have a better answer to that than: "we just need to change society and eliminate poverty"....Ok. Well we have criminals NOW and whats being suggested is a long term solution.
Even building more housing and increasing the minimum wage is... a long term project. It has nothing to do with chasing down criminals NOW.
Godless Socialist CEO
Superstar
Stopping copaganda and getting cops to actually do their jobs without giving them large sums of money is a NOW solution
I'm a black liberal, but i agee. I prefer "good policing" to "tough policing" and since people in this country do everything they can to keep them from being held to a higher standard and having accountability, simply invoking more tougher policies will only serve to hurt innocent black folks as much as it does criminals.
Far better to address issues that contribute to that behavior, and yes its the result of issues/environment/economics etc. Nobody is predisposed to commit crimes.
Ethnic Vagina Finder
The Great Paper Chaser
How do u address it?
Healthy economies where people can be gainfully employed, hence having something to lose.
Almost everyone committing these sorts of crimes are poor. People with shyt to lose don't do shyt like that. They're too busy being productive and maintaing/improving their situations.Carjacking someone so you can use their vehicle to joyride, commit armed robberies, and shoot other people is what constitutes as poverty? Nice
CreepyMcCreeperson
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Is it the government’s job to teach you to be productive? You have to have that mindset to get out of poverty in the first place. What is the government going to do to create self supporting jobs for people in this area?