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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. 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.
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "Earlier this month, he called on states to spend stimulus money, passed as pandemic relief, on law enforcement." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Biden finally signed an executive order yesterday that establishes a database of fired officers, bans chokeholds, and includes some other provisions, but it's only binding on federal law-enforcement agencies -- not the overwhelming majority of the roughly 18,000 police departments in the country." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "One of the many victims of this crime wave was the fledgling bipartisan consensus on criminal justice." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Although Los Angeles and Portland embarked on high-profile reductions in police budgets in 2020, both cities restored and increased funding in the face of rising murder rates." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Funding police is not necessarily antithetical to new approaches -- Democrats have noted that extra cash can help fund mental-health response programs as an alternative to sworn officers, for example -- but Biden's comments underscore how policy makers have switched their focus from reform to crime-fighting." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Support for Black Lives Matter, disapproval of police, and belief that Black Americans suffer regular discrimination surged, especially among white Americans." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "For a brief period, culminating two summers ago, the United States seemed to be on the verge of a serious rethinking of its approach to criminal justice." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Although his role in passing the 1994 crime bill was a liability in the 2020 Democratic primary, his skepticism of calls to defund the police and long ties with law enforcement helped neutralize Trump's attacks." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "One of the most notable moments in Biden's first State of the Union address, in March, came when the president said, We should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In 2016, Donald Trump campaigned for president while making false claims about rising crime, but early in his term, he embraced the First Step Act, under the influence of his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, whose father had been incarcerated." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Biden finally signed an executive order yesterday that establishes a database of fired officers, bans chokeholds, and includes some other provisions, but it's only binding on federal law-enforcement agencies -- not the overwhelming majority of the roughly 18,000 police departments in the country." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "But Trump's heart never seemed to be in it." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Last fall, Senate Republicans rejected the George Floyd Justice in Policing act, Vice President Kamala Harris said at a ceremony unveiling the order." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Funding police is not necessarily antithetical to new approaches -- Democrats have noted that extra cash can help fund mental-health response programs as an alternative to sworn officers, for example -- but Biden's comments underscore how policy makers have switched their focus from reform to crime-fighting." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Although his role in passing the 1994 crime bill was a liability in the 2020 Democratic primary, his skepticism of calls to defund the police and long ties with law enforcement helped neutralize Trump's attacks." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Joe Biden, Trump's opponent, was unusually well positioned to absorb these political blows." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Joe Biden, Trump's opponent, was unusually well positioned to absorb these political blows." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
53% : Earlier this month, he called on states to spend stimulus money, passed as pandemic relief, on law enforcement.48% : Biden finally signed an executive order yesterday that establishes a database of fired officers, bans chokeholds, and includes some other provisions, but it's only binding on federal law-enforcement agencies -- not the overwhelming majority of the roughly 18,000 police departments in the country.
46% : One of the many victims of this crime wave was the fledgling bipartisan consensus on criminal justice.
43% : Although Los Angeles and Portland embarked on high-profile reductions in police budgets in 2020, both cities restored and increased funding in the face of rising murder rates.
41% : Funding police is not necessarily antithetical to new approaches -- Democrats have noted that extra cash can help fund mental-health response programs as an alternative to sworn officers, for example -- but Biden's comments underscore how policy makers have switched their focus from reform to crime-fighting.
39% : Support for Black Lives Matter, disapproval of police, and belief that Black Americans suffer regular discrimination surged, especially among white Americans.
38% : For a brief period, culminating two summers ago, the United States seemed to be on the verge of a serious rethinking of its approach to criminal justice.
31% : Although his role in passing the 1994 crime bill was a liability in the 2020 Democratic primary, his skepticism of calls to defund the police and long ties with law enforcement helped neutralize Trump's attacks.
*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.