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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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| "When it comes to homelessness, she has stressed providing more social services, rather than tougher enforcement of the anti-camping law the city council approved in 2021." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "A leading advocate of criminal-justice reform in Congress, Bass has angered some of her traditional allies on the left, particularly in the Black Lives Matter movement, by promising that as mayor she would reassign more Los Angeles Police Department desk officers to patrol and eliminate the city's widespread homeless encampments." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The decisive recall of progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, and the strong showing of the billionaire former Republican developer Rick Caruso against Democratic Representative Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, likely will pressure Democrats at all levels of government to rebalance their message on criminal justice going forward." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "In Los Angeles, Caruso was about five percentage points ahead of Bass as of this morning." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "But Bass remained close enough that many local observers believe she will remain highly competitive in November's runoff, when the electorate will be larger and likely younger and more racially diverse." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Bass and Caruso face almost mirror-image challenges in the general election." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "He's been a good entrepreneur and civic citizen, but I could see a lot of both the elite and nonideological middle just deciding that Karen Bass can do a better job, says Manuel Pastor, director of the Dornsife Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "California Governor Gavin Newsom, who cruised into the general election after yesterday's primary, has promised to spend more on housing for the homeless but also encountered resistance from liberal groups to his legislative proposal to require involuntary court-ordered mental-health care for more people on the streets." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Bass, who played a central role in drafting the criminal-justice-reform bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last year, hasn't moved as far to the center as Adams." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Caught between divergent constituencies, Bass's message in the primary often seemed wan and indistinct." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "It's not just Bass who has been squeezed between reform and safety." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Ben LaBolt, a San Francisco-based Democratic strategist and former campaign spokesperson for President Barack Obama, predicts that after the recall of Boudin, a child of 1960s radicals who was narrowly elected in 2019, Mayor London Breed is likely to appoint a centrist to complete his term." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "On each of these fronts, Caruso, who reregistered as a Democrat shortly before the election, has been able to stake out ground to Bass's right." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "A leading advocate of criminal-justice reform in Congress, Bass has angered some of her traditional allies on the left, particularly in the Black Lives Matter movement, by promising that as mayor she would reassign more Los Angeles Police Department desk officers to patrol and eliminate the city's widespread homeless encampments." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Bass must show that her painstakingly balanced platform will deliver enough change for voters who are deeply dissatisfied with the status quo on crime and homelessness." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The decisive recall of progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, and the strong showing of the billionaire former Republican developer Rick Caruso against Democratic Representative Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, likely will pressure Democrats at all levels of government to rebalance their message on criminal justice going forward." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
57% : When it comes to homelessness, she has stressed providing more social services, rather than tougher enforcement of the anti-camping law the city council approved in 2021.39% : A leading advocate of criminal-justice reform in Congress, Bass has angered some of her traditional allies on the left, particularly in the Black Lives Matter movement, by promising that as mayor she would reassign more Los Angeles Police Department desk officers to patrol and eliminate the city's widespread homeless encampments.
31% : The decisive recall of progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, and the strong showing of the billionaire former Republican developer Rick Caruso against Democratic Representative Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, likely will pressure Democrats at all levels of government to rebalance their message on criminal justice going forward.
*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.