How the Media Makes You More AFRAID of Crime

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“It was really clear that societies that had more equality and more access to housing and health care and education had lower levels of violence… I was seeing every single day in jail cell after jail cell with people sleeping on top of each other and feces and blood and mucus and mold and urine and being beaten and being deprived of medical care, other people making huge amounts of money off of all of that.” Civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis speaks with Zeteo’s political correspondent, Prem Thakker on the relationship between mainstream media and mass incarceration — diving into how the news inflates crime more than necessary. He also discusses what copaganda is and how inequality in society leads to police violence. This interview was published last week on zeteo.com. If you liked this conversation and want to watch similar discussions earlier, make sure to subscribe on https://zeteo.com/subscribe for exclusive content and early access to unfiltered journalism. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:42 What is copaganda? 04:02 ‘The Bad Apple’ in cops and community 09:45 How the media inflates crime 16:51 Societies with more equality have lower levels of violence 19:55 No context in mainstream news Subscribe to Zeteo to support independent and unfiltered journalism: https://zeteo.com/subscribe Find Zeteo: Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeteo_news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zeteonews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@zeteonews Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/zeteo.com Find Mehdi: Substack: https://substack.com/@mehdirhasan Twitter: https://twitter.com/@mehdirhasan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@mehdirhasan Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mehdirhasan