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Police Brutality
Police Violence Continues to Escalate As the Public Looks Away
In 2023, police shootings of unarmed people in the U.S. reached record levels–the silence signals a return to indifference
The news cycle constantly bombards us with sensationalized stories of crimes nationwide. Much of the reporting employs embellishments spread by police unions and cops. Every law enforcement agency in the United States does this. Even federal agencies like Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and Border Patrol Unions adopted the culture that local and state police have employed for over a century.
From the recent framing of Black people as being responsible for the wave of smash-and-grab thefts at department stores and creating false narratives about violent crime (as we recently saw in New York City when Governor Kathy Hochul deployed the National Guard to the city’s subways amid a substantial drop in crime) to spreading blatant misinformation about the so-called border crisis, this is what has been referred to for decades as copaganda.
Meanwhile, accountability is virtually nonexistent across all agencies while funding for police continues to increase without oversight. During COVID, the Biden administration set aside $35 billion for local…
