NBC News Article Rating

Seattle police officer who struck and killed a graduate student from India is fired

Jan 07, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -34% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -34% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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-19% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : That employee took concerns through the chain of command and after reviewing the video, the chief's office referred it to the Office of Police Accountability for investigation, as department policy and the city's accountability ordinance require.
41% : In an email to members of the department obtained by NBC News, interim Police Chief Sue Rahr said Monday that she had decided to fire Kevin Dave after the Seattle Office of Police Accountability concluded that he had violated four department policies, including one that requires the safe operation of police vehicles.
41% : In a letter he wrote to the director of the Office of Police Accountability more than six months after Kandula was killed and after being told of the video's existence, Auderer said he was imitating what a lawyer tasked with negotiating the case would have said "and being sarcastic to express that they shouldn't be coming up with crazy arguments to minimize the payment.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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