SFPD locates Mission Street stabbing suspect using drone 3%

By Delilah Brumer1%

7/31/2026, 5:55:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Negativity Bias, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 18.2% saturation with 25 hits. Analysis detected 74 faulty-reasoning hits from 137 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 10.8% and a BS Rank of 3% (24,885 of 25,563 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.30% of the article peer group.

Police arrested a Pleasant Hill man suspected in a July 25 stabbing on Mission Street in San Francisco, authorities said Friday. 
Lamedh Porter, 36, allegedly stabbed a victim at about 4 p.m. in the 1100 block of Mission Street, according to the San Francisco Police Department. 
He then ran to Minna Street, crouched between two parked vehicles, changed his clothing and threw a black bag onto a nearby roof, police said. 
Police officers located and arrested Porter by reviewing surveillance footage and chasing him on foot. 
They used drones to locate the black bag, finding inside it a bloody knife believed to be used in the stabbing, police said. 
Paramedics transported the victim to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. 
Their current medical status is unknown, according to SFPD. 
Confirmation Bias
18.2%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
5.8%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
0%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
8%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
10.9%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
10.9%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
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)
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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
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No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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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
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

137 words analyzed.

Analysis

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