mLive Article Rating4 mistakes Kalamazoo officials made in summer 2020 police responses, as outlined in report
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| "The report states, given the extremely unusual volume and intensity of the challenges law enforcement faced nationally last summer, it stands to reason that a measure of mistakes, missteps, and misjudgments would be inevitable - even for well-trained agencies with good intentions." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith introduced a budget amendment that would have penalized local governments over prosecutorial discretion." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Jurist Stephanos Bibas, who was appointed to a federal judgeship in 2017 by Donald Trump and confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate on a mostly party-line vote, wrote in a 2010 article titled The Need for Prosecutorial Discretion, In a world of scarcity, prosecutors are the gatekeepers who ration criminal justice. ..." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota was absent." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "A budget resolution amendment proposed early Wednesday by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) would have cut off nearly all funds to local governments if their prosecutors prioritized going after the most serious violent crimes." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Hyde-Smith's amendment to the $3.5 trillion budget resolution failed on a 47-52 vote, with just two Republicans -- Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney -- joining all 50 Democrats in voting no." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Hyde-Smith's amendment to the $3.5 trillion budget resolution failed on a 47-52 vote, with just two Republicans -- Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney -- joining all 50 Democrats in voting no." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
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47% : The report states, given the extremely unusual volume and intensity of the challenges law enforcement faced nationally last summer, it stands to reason that a measure of mistakes, missteps, and misjudgments would be inevitable - even for well-trained agencies with good intentions.*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.