Cascade PBS96%
Use-of-Force Expert on What’s Going Wrong in ICE Enforcement Operations 100%
By Cascade PBS Staff86%
7/21/2026, 12:15:24 PM
Keywords: Amanpour And Company
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 84.5% saturation with 49 hits. Analysis detected 310 faulty-reasoning hits from 58 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 100% (58 of 19,215 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 99.70% of the article peer group.
In the last few weeks, three people have died during encounters with ICE agents, sparking public outrage and raising questions about the tactics employed.
Law professor Seth Stoughton is a former police officer.
He speaks to Michel Martin about the rise in violence and how to stop it.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
41.4%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
43.1%Framing Effect
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43.1%AuthorCascade PBS Staff
12.7%PublicationCascade PBS
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
41.4%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
84.5%Negativity Bias
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84.5%AuthorCascade PBS Staff
20.9%PublicationCascade PBS
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
15.5%Halo Effect
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15.5%AuthorCascade PBS Staff
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
41.4%Recency Bias
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9.5%PublicationCascade PBS
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Primacy Effect
0%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
32.8%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
41.4%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
41.4%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
25.9%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
41.4%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
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
43.1%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
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Biased Writer Voice
41.4%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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58 words analyzed.
Analysis
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