Keyword summary
17%11 analyzed articles/videos8,045 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Police Misconduct results contain 51 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Confirmation Bias, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 7.3% saturation with 4,348 hits. Analysis detected 33,360 faulty-reasoning hits from 59,928 analyzed words across 11 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.1% and a BS Rank of 2% (35,523 of 36,120 keywords). This Police Misconduct is better (less manipulative) than 98.30% of the peer group.
Police Misconduct

Ranking context

Position among analyzed keywords

2% percentile
02550751001.7% percentile
1.1% BS Score11 analyzed articles59.9K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

KeywordSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Keyword 3.7%3.7%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Keyword 3.4%3.4%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Keyword 7.3%7.3%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Keyword 2.3%2.3%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Keyword 0.5%0.5%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Keyword 3.1%3.1%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Keyword 1.0%1.0%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Keyword 0.5%0.5%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Keyword 0.5%0.5%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Keyword 3.8%3.8%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Framing Effect: Keyword 3.7%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Keyword 7.3%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Keyword 3.4%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Keyword 2.3%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Keyword 3.1%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Keyword 4.6%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Keyword 3.8%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Keyword 0.5%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Keyword 1.0%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Keyword 0.5%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Keyword 3.3%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Keyword 3.2%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Keyword 0.5%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Keyword 0.8%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Keyword 1.6%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Keyword 1.4%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Keyword 0.3%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Keyword 0.9%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Keyword 0.6%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Keyword 0.1%, sitewide 2.5%Bandwagon: Keyword 0.3%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Keyword 0.3%, sitewide 2.2%Ad Hominem: Keyword 0.7%, sitewide 2.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Keyword 0.3%, sitewide 2.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateKeyword rate

Analyzed articles and videos

First NYPD officer charged under George Floyd-inspired chokehold law set to stand trial17%
Gothamist76%By Samantha Max68%7/24/2026, 12:30:58 PM
Colorado newsletter pulls police misconduct from the records vault37%
Denver Westword39%By Brendan Joel Kelley65%7/23/2026, 12:57:02 PM
What ICE Should Have Known When It Hired David Brouillette30%
Mother Jones50%By Samantha Michaels44% Noah Lanard28% Sophie Hurwitz64%7/21/2026, 8:00:09 PM
'Complete 180': How the DOJ has redefined its civil rights mission and targeted California67%
Los Angeles Times78%By Ben Wieder88%7/19/2026, 10:00:00 AM
Police Keep Losing Their Jobs For Using Flock Cameras To Stalk People65%
Mother Jones50%By Sophie Hurwitz64%7/18/2026, 4:59:24 PM
Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader24%
404 Media48%By Jason Koebler44%7/6/2026, 10:00:54 AM
British Police Don't Want You to Watch This Footage of Their Mistake90%
Townhall86%By Joseph Chalfant97%7/3/2026, 7:00:19 PM
“That Guy Is Still Out There”1%
ProPublica27%By Joaquin Sapien0%6/30/2026, 10:30:00 AM
NJ cop stole journalist's camera gear at Delaney Hall protest, AG says30%
Gothamist76%By Michael Sol Warren74%6/4/2026, 8:42:00 PM
An LAPD gang? Internal report says police unit had ‘rampant culture of misconduct’33%
Los Angeles Times78%By Libor Jany62%6/4/2026, 10:00:00 AM