Despite what the national news would have us believe, violent crime is the lowest it has been in over 20 years. That fact doesn’t stop people from being afraid, and the sad reality is that some U.S. cities are more plagued by crime than others.
Abodo dug through a year of tweets from the U.S. for mentions of keywords relating to types of violent, sexual, drug, and police related crimes to find out where people were talking most about crime.
According to the report, “killing” and “killed” were the most frequently used crime-related words on Twitter.
While the homicide related words were mentioned most often, the report notes:
You can rest assured that the actual statistics on crime show almost the exact opposite picture from Twitter. In actuality, it’s property crimes like theft and burglary that are occurring approximately six times more often than violent crime in the United States.
For the purposes of this report, Washington D.C. was considered a state but excluded from the results because it ranked No. 1 in every category. Nevada, which has a crime rate 59 percent higher than the national average, topped the list of states with the most crime related tweets. Interestingly, Alaska was second for fewest crime related tweets, but actually has the highest crime rate in the country, according to the report.
Despite Nevada’s top ranking for most crime tweets, Las Vegas was not the city with the most crime related tweets. Instead, Philadelphia took top ranking in this category followed by New Orleans, which happened to be in one of the most intolerant states in the country.
When broken down by types of crime, Nevada topped the list for violent, drug and police related crime, while Oregon took the top spot for sex and property crime mentions. Violent crime was mentioned most in tweets from New Orleans; drug crime was mentioned most in tweets originating from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In addition to the most crime related tweets overall, and property crime tweets specifically, Philadelphia was second in nearly every other category, except drug and police related.
Check out the full report for more stats and charts.
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