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Santa Clara County DA voices support for Prop. 47 in face of Prop. 36 rollback measure

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    24% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "Before Prop. 47, if you lived in a wealthy city with low crime and there was a shoplifting at the Walgreens or Target, police responded, same as today.
49% : Prop. 47 is being scapegoated when it diverted millions of dollars to effective mental health and treatment programs," Hollins said.
44% : Before Prop. 47 if you lived in a community with high rates of crime and lower resources, police did not respond, and they're not responding today," Rosen said.
37% : "Prop. 47 was responding to a number of things happening at the time, one of which was enormous prison overcrowding.
23% : "From the moment Prop. 47 was passed, there was an attempt to blame criminal justice reform for everything from rises in certain types of crime to global warming.

*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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