https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFnpSsJ0Iw Steve Crowder on his show "Louder with Crowder" referenced the Crime Prevention Research Center research on the rate of attacks on gun-free zones, the media completely ignoring the role of gun-free zones, the rate that armed...
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CPRC in the News: The Epoch Times, The New York Sun, Louisville Courier Journal, Yahoo! News, and much more
The president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, John Lott, told the Sun that citizens who use firearms in self-defense are required under law to demonstrate reasonable fear for their lives. “Stand Your Ground laws require a reasonable person standard,”...
Fox News covers us pointing out that the Louisville Mass Murderer attacked yet another Gun-free Zone
Finally, some news coverage on gun-free zones. The question we have continually been asking: "Why isn’t it newsworthy that time after time these mass murderers pick targets where their victims are defenseless?" . The tragic shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky,...
CPRC in the News: NewsMax, The Hill, New York Sun, Foundation for Economic Education, Red State, and much more
. . . Despite oodles of data showing that defensive gun uses (DGUs) occur quite frequently, the gun control crowd insists on deceptively claiming that these situations rarely arise, which means people should not have the right to keep and bear arms. But John Lott,...
Newsweek covers our work: “Alvin Bragg’s ‘Soft on Crime’ Policies Face Scrutiny as Manhattan DA Goes After Trump”
The CPRC has analyzed how the number of felonies has changed over time in the Manhattan Borough of New York City. Since Alvin Bragg became the borough District Attorney, the number of felonies has surged by 26%. Newsweek has a very lengthy article that discusses our...
The Feedspot puts the CPRC as 3rd of the 90 best Crime Blogs and Websites
Feedspot ranks "the best Crime blogs from thousands of blogs on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness." The CPRC ranks 3rd, ahead of the coverage of crime in the New York Post, Los Angeles, Dallas Morning...
At the Washington Times: FBI data on good guys with guns called ‘garbage’ as critic finds many more cases
The Washington Times has a long article on our research on the FBI Active Shooting reports missing cases where civilians stop attacks (see also here). This was also picked up in the Daily Journal on March 26, 2023. The article is as follows: Mercedes Perez crashed her...
The local Fox TV Channel in DC Covers the CPRC’s research on the Concentration of Murders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AYqQBnB_0s The local Fox station in DC picked up the story from its coverage by Fox News. Murders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concentrated in densely populated urban centers in just a handful of counties, according to a newly...
CPRC in the News: Detroit News (2), Detroit Free Press, WoodTV (Grand Rapids), Lansing State Journal, and more
While most of the testimony presented Thursday was in favor of the 11-bill package, Nikki Goeser spoke out again the addition of new laws. Goeser’s husband was shot and killed in front of her in April 2009. “There are currently involuntary commitment laws that already...
CPRC in the News: Washington Post, Yahoo! News, The New York Sun (2), PJ Media, and much more
In his Feb. 5 Fact Checker column, “What’s more common: A ‘good guy’ without a gun or a ‘good guy’ with one?,” Glenn Kessler made a great case for the FBI to include all incidents of active shooters stopped or curtailed by good Samaritans, armed or not. . . . Perhaps...
CPRC in the News: Breitbart (2), NewsMax, The New York Sun, Independent Institute, Chicago Thinker, and much more
. . . There are currently 25 states with constitutional carry. When there were only 13–Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming–the Crime Prevention Research Center...
Fox News Extensively Quotes the CPRC: 2nd Amendment steps in after cops step back in wake of defund movement in Chicago
As law enforcement has broken down in many parts of the United States, gun sales and concealed handgun permits increased so that people can go and protect themselves. The problem is that many of those who have supported District Attorneys who won't prosecute violent...