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Something about the administrators of state power capitalizing on their execution of it for fame.
I'd probably want that banned?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copaganda
We can make this clear by simply inverting the roles. Imagine that criminals were making true crime podcasts about their own crimes. It means they could (and obviously would) play it for sympathy, downplaying their own actions and denouncing the actions of the state.
As it is, the police could for example be looking for someone for something legal that someone in power doesn’t like, like having an abortion, and lie through their teeth about the reason they are searching for them so the populace helps them and stands with the police even when they are wrong.
https://letsaddresstexas.substack.com/p/texas-police-used-83...
The could also, as another example, use it to search for legal immigrants and citizens with dark complexion while accusing them of crimes they did not commit.
If they wanted to do this honestly, they could instead have the facts of ongoing cases open to everyone publicly, so that journalists could verify and do their own reporting (not that I believe that in today’s world that wouldn’t backfire either).
Aren't the administrators of state power the prosecutors? Police are more rank and file dealing with the issues. Then it gets kicked up to prosecutors and court system that indirectly drives police action. If crimes don't get prosecuted, police don't make arrests. That's why I pass by half a dozen people illegally selling weed or fake handbags on the streets every day.
For instance, police can have a different perspective more in line with reality. They'll arrest the same person multiple times, know his story and the story of the victims. By the time it goes through the legal system (essentially upper management) and through all the layers of bureaucracy, it morphs into something else entirely.
If body camera footage taught me anything is that overwhelming majority of the time I sympathize with the police. They're often very reasonable and act with restraint in a difficult situation. I see clips regularly where without a video the situation would appear very bad for police. This is so common, some commentators like John Oliver came out against police cameras because they're too sympathetic to police because I don't know, angles or something? Really broke the illusion that cops are mostly a group of bullies terrorizing neighborhoods and arresting people at random.
Sure bad cops exist, but I trust their incentives and instinct a lot more than the judicial process, the true "administrators of state power"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_2soVZe0
Why do you think police grab protestors, beat them up, declare they have nothing to charge them with and release them? That is the punishment for protesting. The punishment doesn't even reach the court system.
From the article;
>Chadwick had been charged and pleaded not guilty, but not tried - yet the podcast made no use of the word "alleged" and called the millionaire a "murderer".
Yeah, like that.
Makes sense, would be a huge conflict of interest. That's why most modern countries have separate independent investigative agencies whose purpose is to investigate the police. Sadly, some of the more police-horny countries tend to give these agencies faux power rather than something real, and in the worst ones, the police has qualified immunity anyway.
> https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-true-crime-consumer-repor...
But it's absolutely true that the internet-based tribe called the "TCC" -- the true crime community -- is a hotbed of severe mental illness and moral depravity. It's a very young-skewing demographic, too. You can think of it as Fandom for killers. I monitor my son's internet activity in large part to ensure that he's not exposing himself to it, and I would view any exposure to the TCC as the reddest of red flags.