Cops shoot, wound gunman in Harlem after responding to shooting: NYPD 1%

By Kerry Burke36% Colin Mixson68%

4/24/2026, 11:57:53 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Availability Heuristic, and Negativity Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 39.7% saturation with 69 hits. Analysis detected 278 faulty-reasoning hits from 174 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of 1% (16,747 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 99.60% of the article peer group.

Police shot and wounded a suspect while responding to a shooting in Manhattan on Friday, cops said. 
The shooter was targeting two rivals when he struck one of them in the chest at W. 125th St. and Amsterdam Ave. in West Harlem around 6:22 p.m., according to a law enforcement source. 
An NYPD detective and sergeant responding to that shooting then opened fire, striking the suspect in the stomach, sources said. 
A witness said he saw the cops shoot the suspect and then take him into custody. 
“There were shots, lots of shots,” said the man, who declined to provide his name. 
“The cops pull up and get out of the car, and then he was down. 
He was in the middle of the street, and they handcuffed him.” 
Both the wounded gunman and the shooting victim were taken to a local hospital for treatment. 
An NYPD spokesman could not immediately provide their conditions. 
This is a developing story. 
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
16.1%
Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
6.3%
Loss Aversion
9.2%
Status Quo Bias
5.2%
Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
14.9%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
31%
False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
8.6%
Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
9.2%
No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
8.6%
Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
39.7%
Quote-first Misdirection
8.6%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
2.3%

174 words analyzed.

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