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This week on CounterSpin: "Crime wave" politics are a time-honored response to political movements that take on racist policing in this country, dating back at least to Barry Goldwater, as organizer Josmar Trujillo was reminding ([link removed]) us back in 2015. But here we are again, as outlets like the New York Times announce ([link removed]) a reported rise in the murder rate with coverage steeped in false presumptions about what that means and how to respond. Our guest says prepare to hear a lot about how cops need more resources because "crime is surging," and offers antidote to that copaganda. We hear from Alec Karakatsanis, executive director of Civil Rights Corps ([link removed]) , and author of the book Usual Cruelty ([link removed]) : The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System.

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Larry Nassar

Also on the show: While we're to understand that police could prevent crime, if only they're permitted, we're also asked to accept that the most powerful law enforcement in the country just somehow couldn't manage to prevent Olympic gymnast team doctor Larry Nassar from sexually assaulting dozens of young women, even after they'd been alerted. FBI actions around Nassar went well beyond mere negligence—falsifying testimony, pressuring witnesses—but to actually address that, we'll need to acknowledge a systemic indifference to gender-based crime. Jane Manning ([link removed]) , director of the Women's Equal Justice Project, joins us to talk about that.

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