"... one of the most offensive, grotesque things about copaganda and about the current media system is that it is pointing us toward all of the wrong solutions. We have the most heavily incarcerated, heavily policed, and heavily surveilled society that we’ve ever had. And it is not reducing the amount of interpersonal violence in our society. It does not work. The police do not prevent these shootings."
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Alec Karakatsanis, 'How Media Copaganda Hides the Truth about the US Punishment Bureaucracy' (2022), Current Affairs
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