The Mercury News Article Rating

Oakland City Council approves new police academy to boost staffing

Sep 22, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -11% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The budget approved by the council in June increased police funding by $38.5 million over what the department spent the previous year.
45% : Fortunato Bas acknowledged the crisis, but questioned aloud whether the current system of police funding is actually working.

*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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