Copaganda makes us afraid of the most powerless people, helps us ignore far greater harms committed by people with money and power, and always pushes on us the idea that our fears can be solved by more money for police, prosecution, and prisons.
Based on the evidence, this idea of more investment in the punishment bureaucracy making us safer is like climate science denial.
moral panic is followed by calls for more police surveillance, militarization, higher budgets for prosecutors and prisons, and harsher sentencing.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/copaganda-when-the-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news