How “Crime Panic” Was Engineered to Control America | Heather Ann Thompson
January 28, 2026
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as posted by the channelFor decades, Americans have been told that rising crime justified harsher policing, vigilante violence, and shrinking public services. Historian Heather Ann Thompson explains how that narrative was deliberately constructed — beginning in the Reagan era — and how it still shapes politics today, from media fear campaigns to ICE violence and the erosion of the rule of law.
This conversation traces how economic policy, racial backlash, and sensationalized crime coverage converged to produce the system we’re living with now — and why video evidence no longer seems to matter when power decides who the “criminal” is.
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