{"product_id":"copaganda-how-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news-9781620978535","title":"Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration. . . . What he says cannot be ignored.\"\u003cbr\u003e--James Forman' Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Copaganda\" is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media. It stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society's responses to it. As the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than it did in 1970--despite record low crime rates--a sprawling and profitable punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate what we think that bureaucracy does and why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopaganda is all around us. When you hear on the radio that crime is up when it's actually down--that's copaganda. When your local TV station obsessively focuses on shoplifting by poor people while ignoring crimes of wage theft, tax evasion, and environmental pollution that harm far more people--that's copaganda. When you hear on your daily podcast that there is a \"shortage\" of prison guards rather than too many people in prison--that's copaganda. When your newspaper quotes an \"expert\" saying that more money for police, prosecutors, and prisons is the answer to violence despite scientific evidence to the contrary--that's copaganda.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecognized by\u003ci\u003e Teen Vogue \u003c\/i\u003eas \"one of the most prominent voices\" on the criminal legal system and a featured guest on shows like \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Show with Trevor Noah\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Breakfast Club, \u003c\/i\u003e Karakatsanis brings his sharp legal expertise, trenchant political analysis, and humorous personal storytelling to delve into one of the most critical topics in our society today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620978535\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432","brand":"Alec Karakatsanis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45111938351285,"sku":"9781620978535","price":27.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_af50dfd9-9eab-4201-9320-8a10574191f4.jpg?v=1739887676","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/copaganda-how-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news-9781620978535","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}