Posts Tagged ‘copspeak’

6 Elements Of Police Spin: An Object Lesson In Copspeak

6 Elements Of Police Spin: An Object Lesson In Copspeak Above Photo: From Fair.org Copspeak involves passive language designed to deflect and obscure responsibility. The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder. Officers don’t shoot, they are merely “involved” in shootings; […]

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