Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.I am absolutely sick of hearing about those L.A. police officers who committed all those crimes. It's time for the press to lay off and give law enforcement officers a break. There are a lot of very good police officers out there, and they aren't recognized nearly as often as they should be.

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Irrelevant conclusion.

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Muslims must recite the ritual prayers _________ times a day.

A. four B. five C. six D. seven

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According to Sartre, human beings are

a. completely determined by external causes. b. defined by their essence or universal nature. c. inherently good and benevolent. d. in a continual process of selfcreation.

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Jean-Paul Sartre, a French existentialist writer,

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