Alec Karakatsanis

(1983) Lawyer

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Alec Karakatsanis is a lawyer.

Quick Facts About Alec Karakatsanis

Born: November 7, 1983
Profession: Lawyer

About Alec Karakatsanis

[Wikidata] American civil rights lawyer... | [Wikipedia] Alec Karakatsanis is an American civil rights lawyer and author. He is the founder of Civil Rights Corps, a non-profit organization founded in 2016 that files civil rights lawsuits in the U.S. legal system. Karakatsanis' legal work has targeted, among other things, the American money bail system. He

Quotes by Alec Karakatsanis

“The entire genre of police procedurals mythologizes punishment bureaucrats and the allegedly sophisticated technologies they wield. And it's not just Hollywood--fictional copaganda…

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“If you're an amateur, professional, or aspiring journalist in any city in the U.S., a good story for you would be to…

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“Cultural copaganda is all around us--from the CIA , starting in the 1950s funding projects like the Iowa Writers' Workshop or fronting…

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“On the day Chicago police murdered Laquan McDonald, a seventeen-year-old Black teenager, in 2014, Chicago cops had six full-time public relations employees.…

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“I use the term "punishment bureaucracy" instead of "criminal justice system" because it is a more accurate and less deceptive way to…

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“The second job of copaganda is to manufacture crises and panics about this narrow category of threats.”

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“There is a gulf between the image and reality of the punishment bureaucracy. Copaganda creates that gulf. It is the system of…

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“The third job of copaganda is to convince the public to spend more money on the punishment bureaucracy by framing police, prosecutors,…

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“The first job of copaganda is to narrow our conception of threat. Rather than the bigger threats to our safety caused by…

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“Police employing video propagandists has become more common after the murder of George Floyd.”

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“The concept and terminology of "mugging" as opposed to, say, "robbery" was created as part of the panic, even though there was…

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“Copaganda obscures the active role police play in doing bad things. Many people have criticized the police-invented term "officer-involved shooting" because it…

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“Copaganda leaves the public in a vague state of fear. It manufactures suspicions against poor people, immigrants, and racial minorities rather than,…

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Alec Karakatsanis by topic

The-mafia-in-blue (13) Media manipulation (13) Copaganda (13) Law enforcement (12) Criminal justice system (12) Punishment-bureaucracy (11)