Gothamist⁠77%

Man accused of stabbing 2 on Upper West Side charged with hate crimes, police say ⁠12%

By Brittany Kriegstein⁠66% Giulia Heyward⁠48%

7/24/2026, 9:54:51 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Unattributed Quote, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 17% saturation with 49 hits. Analysis detected 334 faulty-reasoning hits from 289 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 28.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠12% (19,452 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 88.90% of the article peer group.

The man accused of stabbing two people on the Upper West Side on Thursday is charged with multiple hate crimes, police said on Friday. 
Raul Morales, 51, was arrested Thursday after the stabbings, which took place several blocks apart, according to police. 
Officials said Morales apparently yelled “Allahu Akbar” before stabbing an Asian man with a knife and a Jewish man with a screwdriver. 
Police said Friday Morales is charged with attempted murder and assault as a hate crime, along with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. 
Police previously said they caught Morales at an apartment on the 11th floor of a NYCHA building on Amsterdam Avenue and West 88th Street. 
Multiple residents of the building — including the man who Morales was staying with — said they were shocked by the allegations. 
Neighbor Carlos Ramos said he’d frequently see Morales standing outside the building, especially during the summer. 
He said Morales would nod his head and say hi, even once to Ramos’ dog. 
Ramos said he was never violent or hateful, including to diverse groups of people who walked past the building. 
“I was shocked when I see that thing happened. 
Maybe he just lost it,” Ramos said. 
“He was a lonely person all the time.” 
Around midday Friday, a group of police officers arrived to search the apartment where Morales and his roommate stayed. 
Several Jewish elected officials spoke out against the attacks on Friday, indirectly blaming Mayor Zohran Mamdani for fueling antisemitism through his criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 
Mamdani has described the attacks as “hateful and despicable” and said they have no place in the city. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 16.3%Brittany Kriegstein: 3.5%Gothamist: 2.7%Confirmation Bias16.3%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 2.3%Gothamist: 1.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 2.8%Brittany Kriegstein: 4.4%Gothamist: 3.6%Availability Heuristic2.8%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.1%Gothamist: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.7%Gothamist: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 9.7%Brittany Kriegstein: 8.9%Gothamist: 8.4%Framing Effect9.7%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.8%Gothamist: 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.8%Gothamist: 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 3.2%Gothamist: 3.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 2.4%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.7%Gothamist: 1.7%Pessimism Bias2.4%This article: 3.1%Brittany Kriegstein: 9.1%Gothamist: 8.5%Negativity Bias3.1%This article: 6.2%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.0%Gothamist: 2.6%Self-Serving Bias6.2%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.8%Gothamist: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.6%Gothamist: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 5.2%Brittany Kriegstein: 2.8%Gothamist: 2.1%Halo Effect5.2%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.6%Gothamist: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.2%Gothamist: 1.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 5.0%Gothamist: 4.4%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.6%Gothamist: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 7.6%Brittany Kriegstein: 4.1%Gothamist: 3.8%Hasty Generalization7.6%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 6.4%Gothamist: 6.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.2%Gothamist: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 9.7%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.8%Gothamist: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)9.7%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.2%Gothamist: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 17.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 3.2%Gothamist: 2.8%Anecdotal17.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.6%Gothamist: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.7%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.5%Gothamist: 1.2%Unattributed Quote10.7%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.9%Gothamist: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 15.2%Brittany Kriegstein: 5.8%Gothamist: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice15.2%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.5%Gothamist: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 9.7%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 1.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias9.7%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.0%Gothamist: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

289 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers32%attributed speech197writer words
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Carlos Ramos

78%flagged-word coverage
74 attributed words80% of attributed speech37% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Biased Writer Voice-22.3 ptsWriter: 22.3%Carlos Ramos: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-14.2 ptsWriter: 14.2%Carlos Ramos: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote+1.0 ptsWriter: 11.2%Carlos Ramos: 12.2%12.2%

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