ABC News99%
New dashcam video shows a police officer being shot by a fellow cop 98%
6/11/2026, 5:51:02 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Anecdotal, and Framing Effect, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 49.1% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 405 faulty-reasoning hits from 116 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 96.1% and a BS Rank of 98% (610 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.20% of the video peer group.
Pasadena Police Department is finally explaining how a police officer shot his fellow officer.
In newly released dash cam video from September, [music] one officer pulls into a police department garage when another officer at the back of his patrol SUV pulls out his gun and
points it, seemingly joking.
The officer pulling in then takes out his service weapon
>> [music] >> and according to the police chief, accidentally fires through his windshield hitting the first officer in the shoulder.
>> [music]
>> The officer who was shot has recovered
and the police chief says both officers were disciplined after an investigation.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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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
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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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
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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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
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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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
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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
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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116 words analyzed.
Analysis
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