‘Copaganda’: How Police and the Media Warp America’s View of Crime with Alec Karakatsanis

Alec Karakatsanis, a civil rights lawyer and founder of Civil Rights Corps, joins the show to discuss his groundbreaking new book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. Karakatsanis explains how the police and the corporate-owned media team up to distort public perception of crime, spreading fear, fueling mass incarceration, and propping up a system that criminalizes poverty, ignores white-collar crime, and prioritizes punishment over real public safety.