Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations. The piece was then published at The Daily Caller, The Daily Signal, Independent Journal Review, The Epoch Times, Zero Hedge, The Political Insider, Gateway Pundit, World Net Daily, The Association of Mature...
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New Publication at the International Review of Law & Economics: Estimating the effect of concealed carry laws on murder and other violent crimes
Our new research paper is available to read here. Abstract In 2021 we wrote a short paper noting that truncating the sample when estimating the effect of right to carry laws on crime could be biased by comparisons to states that already adopted the law, instead of...
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At the Federalist: The FBI Is Lying About Violent Crime To Help Democrats Win This Election
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. The FBI has a big transparency problem. For a year, the media has been using the FBI’s estimates of reported crime to claim that crime has been falling. When the FBI released its numbers for 2023 in September...
At Real Clear Politics: First, Second, Fourth Amendments Endangered by Kamala Harris
Dr, John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. It also appeared at Zero Hedge, All Sides, and Patriot Post. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday,...
Real Clear Investigations: Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats
Dr. John Lott has a new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations. It also appeared at Alpha News, Patriot Post, Tipp Insights. . When the FBI originally released the "final" crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime...
At the Missoulian: Open elections? Be careful, Montana
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Missoulian newspaper in Missoula, Montana. . Two constitutional initiatives to change how Montanans vote will be on the ballot in November, and both are deceptive. Two of them will help Democrats and ensure, ironically,...
At the Washington Times: Kamala Harris may own a gun, but she doesn’t want you to
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Washington Times. . Vice President Kamala Harris has pushed back hard on claims that she wants to take people’s guns away by repeatedly saying that she and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz own guns. . It sounds reassuring, but it doesn’t...
Letter Submitted to the New York Times: Responding to Paul Krugman’s “Trump’s Made-Up ‘Kamala Crime Wave’,” August 22
Here is a letter that we submitted to the New York Times a couple weeks ago. The letter was not published by the Times. Background: I have served as the senior advisor for research and statistics in the US Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and the...
At Townhall: The Biden-Harris Administration Ghost Gun Case is filled with Lies
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. Homemade guns have been around since before the United States was a country, but gun control advocates refer to them today as “ghost guns.” VanDerStok v. Garland, which the Supreme Court will hear...
At the New York Post: First jobs, now crime: Biden’s FBI revises 2022 violence stats for the worse
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at New York Post. This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official...
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At Tangle: Debate Over Whether Crime is Getting Better or Worse
Tangle conducted individual interviews with the left wing Brennan Center's Ames Grawert, The Manhattan Institutes' Robert VerBruggen, and CPRC's Dr. John Lott on the issue of whether crime is increasing. It would have been much more useful if everyone was in the same...
Dr. Lott participates in Press Briefing with Hundreds of Reporters on the Border Crisis and Crime
Dr. John Lott's Portion of Press Briefing, two discussions put together Complete Press Briefing Democrats what to claim that crime is falling despite the millions of illegal aliens coming into the country, so they conclude that illegal aliens couldn't be causing...
Dr. Lott participates in Press Briefing with Over 30 Reporters on How Crime is Increasing and Law Enforcement is Collapsing
Dr. John Lott's portion of Press Briefing Complete Press Briefing On September 6th, Dr. John Lott participated in a press briefing. Over 30 reporters participated in the briefing, with news stories appearing in the New York Post and Breitbart. The research upon which...
Media Appearances
On Armed American Radio: Discussing a wide range of topics
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on the Armed American Radio show for an hour about changes in the media landscape after Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, the future of the Biden White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and Trump’s...
WORTH LISTENING TO: On WMAL’s Vince Coglianese Show: Discussing Illegal Migrants
Dr. John Lott talked to guest host Pete Mundo on Washington, D.C.’s WMAL about the border crisis and his column at The Daily Signal titled "Are Illegal Migrants Less Likely to Commit Crime? Guess Again." (Monday, November 25, 2024)
On The Schilling Show: To Discuss Concerns about the FBI’s Crime Statistics
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Schilling Show in Charlotteville, Virginia to discuss why the FBI may be lying about violent crime. See also Dr. Lott's new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations titled "Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime...
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Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 38 Cases During August 2024
Las Vegas, Nevada, August 1, 2024 (KTNV) A man who shot and killed the driver of an SUV who was trying to run people over is in police custody and is cooperating, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Police say around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, a man...
Washington Examiner: Illegal migrant crime cost $166.5 billion, three times the price of deportation
Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner had this discussion on our recent piece at Real Clear Investigations. . The cost of crime from 662,000 criminal illegal migrants sought for deportation has been pegged at three times the much-hyped price of President-elect Donald...
CRPC in the News: New York Post, Fox News, Associated Press, Real Clear Politics, and PJ Media
The Crime Prevention Research Center first flagged the FBI’s quiet adjustment in a story that was published by RealClearInvestigations. Jordan and Biggs are demanding all documentation and communication related to the “FBI’s process for updating” the data as...