Weekend Listen: SPD Chief Shon Barnes on working with Katie Wilson and police accountability90%

By Patricia Murphy0%

12/20/2025, 1:45:01 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Anchoring Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 55.7% saturation with 83 hits. Analysis detected 248 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 84.1% and a BS Rank of 90% (1,768 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 89.50% of the article peer group.

Today, we’re bringing you the best from another KUOW show, Soundside… 
It’s been a busy year for the Seattle Police Department. 
A new chief was sworn in, the longstanding federal consent decree ended and the city reached a new contract with the Seattle Police Officers Guild that changes how it can approach unarmed crisis response. 
Plus, a new mayor will take office in January. 
Mayor-elect Katie Wilson announced this week that she planned to retain Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes, despite some rumors to the contrary. 
Soundside's Libby Denkmann talked with Barnes last week. 
Listen to more Soundside interviews here. 
The Soundside team includes Sarah Leibovitz, Jason Burrows, Hans Anderson, Gabrielle Healy, Maleeha Syed, and Jed Kim. 
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
21.5%
Availability Heuristic
35.6%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Confirmation Bias
14.8%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Framing Effect
55.7%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Halo Effect
11.4%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Horn Effect
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Loss Aversion
0%
Negativity Bias
14.8%
Optimism Bias
7.4%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Recency Bias
5.4%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Anecdotal
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Composition/Division
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Middle Ground
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Red Herring
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Straw Man
0%
Tu Quoque
0%

149 words analyzed.

Analysis

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