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Cops rehired, charges dropped: How efforts to punish police for Rayshard Brooks' death failed

Aug 24, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -22% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -38% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    30% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Little has changed about the complex, highly localized systems that are designed to make it difficult to charge officers with crimes for violence on the job, said Keith Taylor, a long-time New York City police officer who now teaches criminal justice at John Jay College.
40% : Maria "Maki" Haberfeld, a professor of police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, told USA TODAY that police have come under more scrutiny and are being watched more closely since the death of George Floyd and massive nationwide protests calling for an end to police brutality.

*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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