Behind the Headlines:  How Money and Media Shape Our Perception of Safety

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For nearly twenty years, Alec Karakatsanis has been a leader in challenging the status quo on policing, bail, and other fundamental aspects of our criminal justice system. <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/alec-karakatsanis-copaganda-policing" title="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/alec-karakatsanis-copaganda-policing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Recognized</a> as “one of the most prominent voices” on criminal justice, his work pushes the frontiers of reform by encouraging the public to think critically – and differently – about our legal system. Now, Alec’s new book <a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/copaganda" title="https://thenewpress.com/books/copaganda" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Copaganda: How Police and Media Manipulate Our News</a> sheds new light on the bureaucracy of punishment in the United States, and the myriad ways the media – and money – prop that bureaucracy up.We’re thrilled to have Alec join us for a special discussion on Copaganda and his continued work to carve out space for imagination and meaningful change. During our time together, we’ll dive into:<ul><li>Crime as a social construct and how media coverage shapes narratives around it</li><li>How the media can improve its coverage of policing and crime</li><li>The relationship between dominant narratives around crime and resource allocation</li><li>Social media’s role in a fractured media landscape</li></ul>It’s a conversation you won’t want to miss. Register to secure your spot now!

<h3>About Alec Karakatsanis</h3>Alec is the Founder of Civil Rights Corps. He graduated from Yale College with a degree in Ethics, Politics, &amp; Economics and Harvard Law School, where he was a Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review.Alec has pioneered constitutional civil rights cases to challenge the size, power, profit, and everyday brutality of the punishment bureaucracy across the United States. These legal challenges have helped to free hundreds of thousands of people from illegal confinement in jail cells, returned tens of millions of dollars to indigent people and families, blocked billions in government spending on state violence, prevented hundreds of thousands of illegal convictions, prevented the separation of hundreds of thousands of families, and transformed the way the punishment bureaucracy handles fines, fees, and bail across the United States. Alec has also worked with the communities most affected by the punishment bureaucracy across the country to design innovative new legal, advocacy, and narrative strategies for challenging widespread illegal and harmful practices of prosecutors, police, probation officers, judges, and private companies who work with them to profit from the punishment bureaucracy.Before founding Civil Rights Corps, Alec was a civil rights lawyer and public defender with the Special Litigation Division of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia; a federal public defender in Alabama, representing impoverished people accused of federal crimes; and co-founder of the non-profit organization Equal Justice Under Law.

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