Speaker summary
43%81 analyzed articles/videos1,337.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Police results contain 32 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 15.2% saturation with 268.234 hits. Analysis detected 2,398.2 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,337.333 analyzed words across 81 articles and videos, generating a BS Score of 3.7% and a BS Rank of 2% (28,030 of 28,364 speakers). This Police is better (less manipulative) than 98.80% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

1% percentile
02550751001.2% percentile
3.7% BS Score81 analyzed videos1.3K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 9.3%9.3%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 5.3%5.3%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 10.6%10.6%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 0.2%0.2%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 1.1%1.1%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 15.2%15.2%Burden of ProofSitewide 0.4%Speaker 4.1%4.1%Fundamental Attribution E…Sitewide 2.7%Speaker 5.9%5.9%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 2.9%2.9%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 2.4%2.4%

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: Speaker 9.3%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 10.6%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 5.3%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 15.2%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 9.4%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 8.3%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 7.7%, sitewide 7.5%Halo Effect: Speaker 1.1%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Speaker 0.2%, sitewide 6.0%Fundamental Attribution Error: Speaker 5.9%, sitewide 2.7%Biased Writer Voice: Speaker 3.7%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Speaker 2.4%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 1.9%, sitewide 4.6%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 4.2%, sitewide 3.3%Burden of Proof: Speaker 4.1%, sitewide 0.4%Anchoring Bias: Speaker 3.3%, sitewide 4.0%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 3.5%, sitewide 1.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Speaker 2.1%, sitewide 3.1%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 2.9%, sitewide 0.0%Representativeness Heuristic: Speaker 2.8%, sitewide 1.9%Recency Bias: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 2.7%, sitewide 0.8%Loss Aversion: Speaker 0.5%, sitewide 2.5%Pessimism Bias: Speaker 2.2%, sitewide 1.9%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Man accused of stabbing 2 on Upper West Side charged with hate crimes, police say12%
Gothamist77%By Brittany Kriegstein66% Giulia Heyward48%7/24/2026, 9:54:51 PM
Videos show fatal Walmart parking lot car theft, crash16%
Las Vegas Review-Journal62%By Akiya Dillon17%7/24/2026, 9:36:34 PM
16-year-old arrested for shooting and killing 15-year-old girl and her 9-year-old brother, Maryland police say15%
The Blaze79%By Carlos Garcia64%7/24/2026, 9:30:00 AM
Two men stabbed near Central Park94%
NBC News99%7/24/2026, 12:38:35 AM
Parents lose their only two children after boy, 7, and girl, 9, were thrown into water during boating trip when grandpa, 63, struck marker57%
Daily Mail Online78%By JOE HUTCHISON62%7/23/2026, 1:05:04 PM
Police: Fells Point checkpoints will continue; council member advises limits64%
Baltimore Sun28%By Brian Carlton0% Chevall Pryce0%7/23/2026, 9:05:49 AM
Witness to shooting in downtown Casper told police she ‘felt rounds pass near her head’16%
Oil City News23%By Greg Hirst3%7/22/2026, 11:25:48 PM
8 suspects sought for stealing $10K-worth of Nike products from Dick’s Sporting Goods8%
WDIV ClickOnDetroit31%By Jenny Sherman4%7/22/2026, 3:18:33 PM
China Pitches Its AI Leadership to the World13%
Foreign Policy32%By Joseph Rachman17%7/22/2026, 5:00:59 AM
5 people die in a mass drowning in an Ohio river90%
ABC News99%7/22/2026, 12:47:40 AM