"Police-tracked crime, "contrary to what you have been told in the news every single day for the last several years, is actually down," says Karakatsanis, but fearmongering mainstream media narratives are "designed to make people so afraid that they support repressive institutions that infringe on their own liberty, that don't make them safer, but that give people in power in our society more ability to control and manipulate.""
"Floyd's murder sparked worldwide protests and demands for justice, to defund the police. Nearly six years later, as mobilizations intensify in opposition to Trump's mass immigration raids and widespread militarization, there are renewed calls for accountability and growing efforts to abolish ICE and defund DHS, with many grassroots movements saying government actions must move beyond reform in the fight against state violence."
Copaganda converts ordinary outrage into support for meaningless reforms that do not reduce the size, power, or budget of policing and immigration enforcement bureaucracies. Fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents occurred in south Minneapolis near the site where Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in May 2020. Floyd's murder sparked worldwide protests and demands to defund the police. Mobilizations against mass immigration raids and militarization have renewed calls to abolish ICE and defund DHS, with many grassroots movements insisting government actions must move beyond reform. Many myths about crime and policing persist, including the reformist myth of body cameras and the supposed crime wave.
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