NBC Chicago Article Rating

Elimination of Cash Bail as Part of SAFE-T Act on Hold for Entire State. Here's Why

Jan 02, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -28% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% :Authored by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, the act was approved by the Illinois General Assembly last year, bringing "significant changes" to things like police training policies, police accountability, transparency in law enforcement and the rights of detainees and prisoners, according to Sen. Elgie R. Sims, Jr., who sponsored the bill.
50% :Emerging after the Minneapolis police beating death of George Floyd in May 2020, the SAFE-T Act sets rigorous new training standards for law enforcement, spells out rules for police use of force in immobilizing troublesome suspects, requires body cameras on all police by 2025 and more.

*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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