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Civic record · Boulder
What problems are increasing in Boulder?
Every civic news report geolocated to Boulder, classified into an open problem vocabulary, and trended as a share of the city's total coverage.
AI verdict · codex · ground-checked
The civic agenda has shifted from broad crime coverage toward targeted violence. Crime and violence took a smaller slice of the city's news (down 6.4 points), while terrorism and conflict took a bigger slice (up 13.6 points), led by hate-crime attacks and firebombing. The 2021 mass shooting remains the stark local reference point.
WATCH Watch whether hate-crime attacks and firebombing keep shaping coverage or begin to recede.
Full category ledger
category
news reported
share change (points)
action rate
fatal rate
terrorism conflict
360
+13.6
16.1%
9.2%
immigration border
61
+1.6
11.5%
9.8%
legal judicial
190
+0.7
26.3%
5.3%
missing persons
133
+0.4
13.5%
11.3%
protest civil unrest
102
+0.3
0.0%
1.0%
environment pollution
126
+0.1
4.0%
0.8%
elections politics
46
+0.1
0.0%
0.0%
infrastructure utilities
192
+0.0
6.8%
0.5%
human rights social
41
-0.0
9.8%
0.0%
accidents road safety
857
-0.1
10.9%
13.5%
corruption fraud
46
-0.2
34.8%
0.0%
governance policy
982
-0.8
3.5%
3.3%
public safety
332
-1.4
6.0%
14.2%
public health
207
-1.7
1.4%
10.6%
policing law enforcement
538
-2.1
19.0%
13.4%
disasters emergencies
393
-4.2
1.5%
9.4%
crime violence
4,684
-6.4
37.0%
44.0%
Rising sub-problems
problem
news reported
Δpp
hate crime attack
236
+9.01
targeted attack
139
+5.35
hate crime firebombing
119
+4.45
terror attack
58
+2.23
terrorist attack
45
+1.69
hit and run
59
+1.13
homicide attempt
33
+1.05
power outage
39
+0.90
hate crime
23
+0.89
arson
43
+0.71
Receding sub-problems
problem
news reported
Δpp
homicide
2499
-18.20
wildfire
304
-3.61
mass shooting
130
-3.36
sexual assault
298
-2.08
active shooter
36
-1.02
officer shooting
42
-0.97
Coverage volume by year
Corroborated fatal events (≥3 news reports agreeing; conflicting tolls merged into a range, never summed)
month
event type
deaths reported
corroborating news reports
2020-03
pandemic outbreak
59–69
6
2021-03
mass shooting
18
3
2021-03
homicide
18
6
2023-01
homicide
10
14
2024-05
homicide
10
7
2024-09
homicide
10
93
9,290 pieces of news reported · complete civic news corpus · deaths shown only for corroborated events, never summed