Weekend Listen: SPD Chief Shon Barnes on working with Katie Wilson and police accountability⁠91%

By Patricia Murphy⁠0%

12/20/2025, 5:45:01 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Anchoring Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 55.7% saturation with 83 hits. Analysis detected 248 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 84.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠91% (2,135 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.20% of the article peer group.

Today, we’re bringing you the best from another KUOW show, Soundside… 
It’s been a busy year for the Seattle Police Department. 
A new chief was sworn in, the longstanding federal consent decree ended and the city reached a new contract with the Seattle Police Officers Guild that changes how it can approach unarmed crisis response. 
Plus, a new mayor will take office in January. 
Mayor-elect Katie Wilson announced this week that she planned to retain Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes, despite some rumors to the contrary. 
Soundside's Libby Denkmann talked with Barnes last week. 
Listen to more Soundside interviews here. 
The Soundside team includes Sarah Leibovitz, Jason Burrows, Hans Anderson, Gabrielle Healy, Maleeha Syed, and Jed Kim. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 21.5%Patricia Murphy: 1.8%KUOW: 1.3%Anchoring Bias21.5%This article: 35.6%Patricia Murphy: 5.6%KUOW: 3.4%Availability Heuristic35.6%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 14.8%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.6%Confirmation Bias14.8%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 55.7%Patricia Murphy: 9.4%KUOW: 7.4%Framing Effect55.7%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.6%KUOW: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 11.4%Patricia Murphy: 4.9%KUOW: 2.7%Halo Effect11.4%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.3%KUOW: 2.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 14.8%Patricia Murphy: 6.8%KUOW: 8.0%Negativity Bias14.8%This article: 7.4%Patricia Murphy: 5.5%KUOW: 3.8%Optimism Bias7.4%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.9%KUOW: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 5.4%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 1.1%Recency Bias5.4%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.9%KUOW: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.2%KUOW: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.0%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.4%KUOW: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.2%KUOW: 3.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 8.9%KUOW: 4.3%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 4.3%KUOW: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 2.1%KUOW: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.5%KUOW: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.3%KUOW: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.0%KUOW: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 7.0%KUOW: 4.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.1%KUOW: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 1.7%KUOW: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.4%KUOW: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.7%KUOW: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.2%KUOW: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Patricia Murphy: 0.0%KUOW: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%

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