Miami, FL

Over the 90-day window ending June 1, 2026, Miami city data recorded 2,140 theft incidents, representing 72 percent of all measured incidents across tracked categories. Assault (269 incidents, 9 percent) and burglary (212 incidents, 7 percent) were the next largest categories. Homicide, by contrast, totaled just 4 recorded incidents, or less than 1 percent of the measured volume. Coverage did not mirror that distribution in either scope. National outlets produced only 14 stories total across all categories, devoting 6 of them (43 percent of national coverage) to homicide, and just 1 story each to theft, robbery, and drugs. Local outlets produced 194 stories and spread attention more broadly: assault drew 59 stories (30 percent of local coverage), homicide drew 39 stories (20 percent), sex offenses drew 21 stories (11 percent), and fraud drew 15 stories (8 percent). A headline from WPLG Local 10 Miami on June 26, 2026, covered a Miami man charged with attempted murder after a stabbing, and WSVN Miami on the same date reported a UPS driver accused of stealing a dollar 55,000 Rolex during deliveries, illustrating the range of violent and property crime that local outlets tracked within a single day.

The national-vs-local divergence is most visible in two categories. Homicide received 43 percent of national story share against only 20 percent of local story share and under 1 percent of measured incident share. That gap confirms the expected national pattern of over-indexing fatal violence relative to its actual frequency in the data. Disorder received 21 percent of national story share (3 of 14 stories) against only 1 percent of local story share and zero measured incidents in the tracked dataset, suggesting national outlets amplified a category the city's own data system does not count as a discrete incident type. Theft ran in the opposite direction: it accounted for 72 percent of measured incidents but only 7 percent of national coverage and 4 percent of local coverage, meaning both coverage tiers under-represented the most common crime in the data, though local outlets matched national outlets in raw story count (7 each) while producing a far larger total volume overall.

Local coverage added categories entirely absent from the measured incident dataset, including fraud (15 local stories), weapons (6 stories), drugs (5 stories), and disorder (2 stories). These may reflect arrests, federal cases, or incidents logged outside the city's primary incident-reporting system rather than gaps in policing. Sex offenses showed the sharpest coverage-to-incident ratio: 22 measured incidents produced 21 local stories and zero national stories, a pattern consistent with high-profile individual cases such as the Overtown child gang rape case covered by WPLG Local 10 Miami on June 26, 2026, drawing sustained local attention to a small measured count. National outlets produced no sex offense coverage at all in this window, a notable absence given local prominence of the story.

Each category’s share of measured incidents, national/cable coverage, and local coverage over the same ~90-day window.

14 national stories · 194 local stories in window

• WSVN MiamiMiami Beach woman arrested for assaulting park ranger and police officer
• WPLG Local 10 Miami1 detained after woman shot in northwest Miami-Dade, deputies say
• WSVN MiamiMDSO: Child riding bicycle struck and killed by pick-up truck in NW Miami-Dade
• WPLG Local 10 MiamiMDSO: Boy, 5, killed after being struck by pickup truck at Krome Motorcross Park
• WPLG Local 10 MiamiTeen accused in Overtown child gang rape case will stay locked up ahead of trial
• WSVN MiamiMiami man charged with attempted murder after girlfriend was stabbed 34 times, police say
• WPLG Local 10 MiamiUPS driver accused of stealing $55K Rolex, opening packages during delivery route in Miami-Dade
• WPLG Local 10 MiamiAlleged burglar found with BB gun inside North Miami Beach apartment mailroom, cops say