Greenport police officer charged with DWI after patrol car crash ⁠15%

By H.R. Schneider⁠6%

8/3/2026, 6:18:01 AM

Topics: Crime, Law
Keywords: Local, Gcco, Latestnews

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Framing Effect, and Anchoring Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 33.1% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 232 faulty-reasoning hits from 172 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠15% (23,029 of 26,821 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 85.90% of the article peer group.

GREENPORT — A town police officer is facing a driving while intoxicated charge after she drove her patrol car off the road. 
Officer Stephanie Van Alstyne was driving northbound on Route 9 near the Greenport Commons shopping plaza on Sunday when she veered off the road and crashed her patrol car around 4:40 p.m., according to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office. 
A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office confirmed Monday that Van Alstyne was on duty at the time. 
Van Alstyne allegedly had a blood alcohol content of 0.15% — almost twice the legal limit of .08% — and was charged with a DWI. 
She had minor injuries but declined treatment, deputies said. 
Van Alstyne also works as a correction officer for the sheriff’s office. 
She was immediately suspended without pay pending the outcome of the investigation, deputies said. 
Neither the Greenport Police Department nor the town supervisor returned requests for comment or to confirm Van Alstyne’s status as a town police officer. 
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172 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker23%attributed speech133writer words
0%flagged-word coverage
39 attributed words100% of attributed speech93% writer coverage
0%15.0%30.0%Biased Writer Voice-25.6 ptsWriter: 25.6%Columbia County Sheriff’s Office: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-12.8 ptsWriter: 12.8%Columbia County Sheriff’s Office: 0.0%0.0%

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

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