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A Tough-On-Crime Approach Is Back in US State Capitols

Jan 13, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    4% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -57% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : After a period of relaxed sentencing laws, a tough-on-crime approach is back in political favor in the U.S. Republicans and Democrats alike are promoting anti-crime initiatives as a new year of lawmaking gets underway in state capitols.
51% : "As soon as my hand comes off the Bible, the Kehoe administration will be relentless in our efforts to make Missouri safer," Kehoe pledged.
41% : This year, Missouri lawmakers are backing numerous anti-crime measures, including bills targeting fentanyl, stunt driving, rioting, retail theft and resisting arrest.

*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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