Mount Vernon ⁠21%

8/5/2026, 7:49:10 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Confirmation Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 14.4% saturation with 28 hits. Analysis detected 183 faulty-reasoning hits from 195 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 29% and a BS Rank of ⁠21% (22,494 of 28,475 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 79.00% of the article peer group.

Mount Vernon official charged in Bronx court shooting 
‘You can't just stand out front': Texts link police official to son in getaway shooting 
A deputy police commissioner in New York has been charged in an attempted murder case that investigators allege she coordinated on with her son and husband. 
Mount Vernon police official and son charged in Bronx shooting 
Effective immediately, the City of Mount Vernon has terminated its employment relationship with Jennifer Lackard following her arrest in connection with an attempted murder case in the Bronx. 
NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports. 
250 displaced in Mount Vernon apartment building fire 
The building fire that tore through a Mount Vernon apartment complex has left all 250 residents displaced, authorities with the city’s Office of Emergency Management announced late Sunday. 
Authorities say 150 people are in immediate need of shelter, with 75 to 100 others believed to be traveling. 
Flames shot of out of the top floors of the large building at… 
250 displaced in Mount Vernon apartment building fire 
Holmes Elementary School will serve as a massive shelter for the next five nights, according to the city of Mount Vernon. 
Ida Siegal reports. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 13.3%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.0%Confirmation Bias13.3%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 14.4%NBC 6 South Florida: 2.1%Availability Heuristic14.4%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.4%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 7.7%NBC 6 South Florida: 4.8%Framing Effect7.7%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 2.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.7%NBC 6 South Florida: 9.9%Negativity Bias6.7%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 13.3%NBC 6 South Florida: 3.7%Appeal to Authority13.3%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.5%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 6.7%NBC 6 South Florida: 4.0%Appeal to Emotion6.7%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.1%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 9.7%NBC 6 South Florida: 2.0%Unattributed Quote9.7%This article: 7.7%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection7.7%This article: 14.4%NBC 6 South Florida: 3.6%Biased Writer Voice14.4%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC 6 South Florida: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

195 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers33%attributed speech130writer words
Selected voice

City of Mount Vernon

100%flagged-word coverage
28 attributed words43% of attributed speech56% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%City of Mount Vernon: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote-14.6 ptsWriter: 14.6%City of Mount Vernon: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-11.5 ptsWriter: 11.5%City of Mount Vernon: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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