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Wednesday, September 04, 2013

RANKED: The Most Corrupt States

This weekend, the New York Times' Nick Madigan called Florida a "hothouse of corruption," reporting the Sunshine State saw the greatest number of people convicted of public corruption between 2000 and 2010.

That's technically true. But it's not the full story.

To get a true sense of the most corrupt state, we need to know how many convictions there have been on a population basis.

So we went back to Justice Department data cited by Madigan, to see which states saw the greatest number of convictions per 100,000 (Madigan actually appears to cite slightly outdated data; the latest covers the period between 2002 and 2011).

No. 1?

Louisiana, with nearly 9 convictions per 100,000 people.

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 10:16 AM

    MD is more corrupt than NY...???...LOL

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 11:15 AM

    Lump all of the corruption in all of the states together, and it won't hold a candle to the daily corruption by Washington D.C. politicans!

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 11:35 AM

    10:16 its probably because of Governor O"Dumbass and the Democrats

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 1:55 PM

    It's not hard to figure out the common denominator in the picture. They are all Democrat controlled states.

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