By Katie Mayer | InMaricopa.com
Maricopa Realtor Deborah Farhat scrolled through the online residential real estate website Trulia late last year and noticed something startling.
The crime statistics displayed on the site for the nearly 45-square-mile city of Maricopa showed criminal activity roughly 10 times greater than the entire city of Phoenix. When Farhat looked at other cities, she saw crime numbers only a small fraction of what Maricopa showed.
Today, Trulia’s crime numbers for Maricopa still come up nearly five times greater than the city of Phoenix, despite the fact that Maricopa has many fewer crimes. Trulia lists properties for sale and rent, as well as neighborhood information.
“It makes our city look like we have something seriously wrong out here,” Farhat said.