Thread by @smallcrimez, Now that journalists are starting to understand cops are not their friend [...]

✌🏽Abolish the police 🥳

smallcrimez

Now that journalists are starting to understand cops are not their friend either, it’s time to stoppppp laundering their guilt with apologist headlines (I give plenty of resources at the end):

Stop

Be careful how you report on crime. https://popula.com/2018/07/24/down-with-the-daily-crime-story/

Down with the daily crime story

Daily newspapers are valuable, the way they write about crime stories much less so.

https://popula.com/2018/07/24/down-with-the-daily-crime-story/

There are plenty of resources that will help you do better https://fair.org/home/copspeak-7-ways-journalists-use-police-jargon-to-obscure-the-truth/

Copspeak: 7 Ways Journalists Use Police Jargon to Obscure the Truth

“Copspeak” — the jargon used by police departments — is internalized by journalists covering police violence.

https://fair.org/home/copspeak-7-ways-journalists-use-police-jargon-to-obscure-the-truth/

Cancel the show Cops, like yesterday https://theappeal.org/media-frame-time-to-ban-ride-along-police-tv/

Media Frame: Time to Ban Ride-Along Police TV

Reality shows like ‘The First 48,’ ‘Live PD,’ and ‘Cops’ are interfering in legal cases, exploiting people of color, and threatening lives.

https://theappeal.org/media-frame-time-to-ban-ride-along-police-tv/

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2015/06/the-brutal-facts-that-sergeant-joe-friday-ignored/395591/

How Television Shaped America's Decades-Long Blindness to Police Brutality

In the most influential police procedural ever, even Joe Friday, America’s archetypal “good cop,” was blind to the problem.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2015/06/the-brutal-facts-that-sergeant-joe-friday-ignored/395591/

https://hollywood.colorofchange.org/crime-tv-report/

Normalizing Injustice - Color of Change Hollywood

A Comprehensive Study of How Television’s Most Popular Genre Excludes Writers of Color, Miseducates People about the Criminal Justice System and Makes Racial Injustice Acceptable

https://hollywood.colorofchange.org/crime-tv-report/

Good addition to this thread: https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/1266943405457846272?s=21 https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/1266943405457846272

https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/1266943405457846272?s=21

A thread with more resources:

https://twitter.com/drrjkavanagh/status/1265746413767528448?s=21 https://twitter.com/drrjkavanagh/status/1265746413767528448

https://twitter.com/drrjkavanagh/status/1265746413767528448?s=21

https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1177296697610899456?s=21 https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1177296697610899456

https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1177296697610899456?s=21

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