Father in custody after NY cop wife charged with being getaway driver for gang member son in Bronx shooting ⁠13%

By Hannah Nightingale⁠61%

8/7/2026, 1:01:30 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Unattributed Quote, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 15.9% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 284 faulty-reasoning hits from 353 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠13% (26,642 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 87.10% of the article peer group.

The husband of a high-ranking New York police official has been arrested after his son allegedly carried out a failed gang hit in the Bronx. 
The official has been removed from her role after she was accused of acting as her son’s getaway driver for the shooting. 
James Lackard has been charged with attempted murder and conspiracy in connection with the June 29 Bronx shooting, per the New York Daily News. 
Both his wife, Jennifer Lackard, a former senior official with the Mount Vernon Police Department, as well as her son, Chase Lackard, were arrested on Tuesday. 
The mother and son have been hit with charges that include attempted murder, attempted assault, criminal possession of a firearm, conspiracy and reckless endangerment. 
Jennifer Lackard has been fired from her role with the police. 
On June 29, Chase Lackard allegedly opened fire on a rival gang behind the Bronx Hall of Justice, where he had appeared the same day for an unrelated prior gun arrest. 
No one was injured in the shooting. 
Chase Lackard fled the scene in his family’s van, driven by Jennifer Lackard, prosecutors say. 
James Lackard was also inside the van. 
Chase Lackard allegedly opened fire from inside the van, with both parents present. 
Text messages unveiled by prosecutors have revealed how Chase Lackard, a member of the Slutty Gang, had coordinated with his parents. 
All three had driven together in the van to the courthouse and fled together. 
In a message Chase Lackard allegedly sent to his mother, he wrote, “Be directly in Fromt (sic) When I Leave.” 
The mother allegedly replied, “You can’t just sit directly outside. 
It has to be timed right.” 
James Lackard had been in North Carolina when his wife and son were taken into custody at their Soundview apartment on Tuesday. 
When he returned to the city, he surrendered to police. 
James Lackard’s bail has been set at $15,000, Jennifer Lackard’s bail has been set at $75,000, while Chase Lackard was ordered to be held without bail. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 5.9%Hannah Nightingale: 6.4%The Post Millennial: 6.0%Confirmation Bias5.9%This article: 7.4%Hannah Nightingale: 0.6%The Post Millennial: 0.7%Anchoring Bias7.4%This article: 10.2%Hannah Nightingale: 3.3%The Post Millennial: 2.9%Availability Heuristic10.2%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.2%The Post Millennial: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.5%The Post Millennial: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.4%The Post Millennial: 0.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 9.3%Hannah Nightingale: 7.9%The Post Millennial: 9.3%Framing Effect9.3%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 2.1%The Post Millennial: 0.7%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.3%The Post Millennial: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.0%The Post Millennial: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.1%The Post Millennial: 0.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 2.2%The Post Millennial: 1.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 15.9%Hannah Nightingale: 10.2%The Post Millennial: 10.0%Negativity Bias15.9%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.5%The Post Millennial: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.7%The Post Millennial: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 6.2%Hannah Nightingale: 0.3%The Post Millennial: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias6.2%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.1%The Post Millennial: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.2%The Post Millennial: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.5%The Post Millennial: 1.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.3%The Post Millennial: 0.5%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.0%The Post Millennial: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.2%The Post Millennial: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.7%The Post Millennial: 1.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.6%The Post Millennial: 1.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 6.8%Hannah Nightingale: 2.2%The Post Millennial: 2.1%Appeal to Authority6.8%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 2.6%The Post Millennial: 1.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.5%The Post Millennial: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 4.9%The Post Millennial: 5.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 7.8%The Post Millennial: 4.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.9%The Post Millennial: 1.2%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.0%The Post Millennial: 1.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 2.1%The Post Millennial: 1.0%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.4%The Post Millennial: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.2%The Post Millennial: 1.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.3%The Post Millennial: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 2.4%The Post Millennial: 1.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.2%The Post Millennial: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.1%The Post Millennial: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.2%Hannah Nightingale: 2.3%The Post Millennial: 1.4%Unattributed Quote10.2%This article: 8.5%Hannah Nightingale: 1.8%The Post Millennial: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection8.5%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 4.4%The Post Millennial: 6.0%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.3%The Post Millennial: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.0%The Post Millennial: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 1.6%The Post Millennial: 6.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Hannah Nightingale: 0.2%The Post Millennial: 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

353 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers8.5%attributed speech323writer words
Selected voice

Chase Lackard

100%flagged-word coverage
20 attributed words67% of attributed speech56% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Chase Lackard: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+98.1 ptsWriter: 1.9%Chase Lackard: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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