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What problems are increasing in Perth?

Every civic news report geolocated to Perth, classified into an open problem vocabulary, and trended as a share of the city's total coverage.

Summary

Perth's civic picture is deteriorating around violence and roads. Crime and violence took a bigger slice of the city's news, up 5.4 points, while accidents and road safety rose 5.8 points. Homicide was the fastest-growing specific problem, up 2.30 points.

WATCH Keep an eye on whether homicide and traffic crashes keep displacing other civic concerns.

Full category ledger

Category	News Reported	Share Change (points)	Action Rate	Fatal Rate
Accidents Road Safety	1,745	+5.8	7.5%	21.2%
Crime Violence	4,859	+5.4	54.8%	16.9%
Terrorism Conflict	100	+3.0	22.0%	11.0%
Environment Pollution	149	+1.4	2.7%	3.4%
Legal Judicial	245	+0.6	31.4%	2.0%
Human Rights Social	100	+0.2	5.0%	10.0%
Elections Politics	47	+0.1	0.0%	0.0%
Labor Employment	63	-0.0	12.7%	0.0%
Governance Policy	986	-0.1	2.8%	1.3%
Infrastructure Utilities	323	-0.1	2.5%	1.9%
Corruption Fraud	253	-0.1	36.4%	0.0%
Public Safety	569	-0.2	5.8%	12.3%
Missing Persons	226	-0.3	9.3%	4.9%
Protest Civil Unrest	189	-1.0	6.9%	1.6%
Policing Law Enforcement	605	-1.7	34.9%	6.4%
Immigration Border	204	-1.7	13.7%	0.0%
Disasters Emergencies	586	-3.2	0.9%	4.4%
Public Health	825	-8.3	5.8%	17.0%

Rising sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Homicide	1756	+2.30
Traffic Accident	352	+2.06
Sexual Assault	315	+1.93
Bomb Threat	25	+1.00
Invasive Species	20	+0.73
Terrorist Attack	18	+0.68
Fire Incident	33	+0.49
Child Exploitation	61	+0.45
Defamation Trial	22	+0.41
Drug Trafficking	116	+0.40

Receding sub-problems

Problem	News Reported	Δpp
Bushfire	261	-2.34
Water Accident	41	-0.67
Wildfire	47	-0.57
Assault	401	-0.55
Disease Outbreak	50	-0.51
Burglary	62	-0.49

Coverage volume by year

Corroborated fatal events (≥3 news reports agreeing; conflicting tolls merged into a range, never summed)

Coverage Month	Event Type	Deaths Reported	Corroborating News Reports
2024-04	Homicide	27	3
2022-12	Traffic Accident	13	4
2018-09	Homicide	5	38
2019-04	Homicide	5	4

12,074 pieces of news reported · deaths shown only for corroborated events, never summed

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