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...
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The Revised FBI Crime Data Reveals that it Originally Missed 1,699 Murders in 2022. Given that Almost all Murders are Reported, How Does the FBI Miss that Many Murders?
USA Today’s headline on the FBI's reported crime data released in September 2023 claims “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” There are two errors in their headline. First, that it is the FBI’s measure of reported crime...
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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. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday, she argued that people need to vote for her to preserve...
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...
At Real Clear Politics: The New Data on Migrant Crime
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published in the Tennessee Star, NOQ Report, Real Clear Policy, and Off the Press. . The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking. . The U.S. Immigration...
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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 The Michigan Talk Network: To Discuss Election Concerns
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the impact of election outcomes. (Friday, October 25, 2024)
On The Vicki McKenna Show: To Discuss The FBI’s Crime Stats Revisions
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about his new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations titled “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats.” The updated data for 2022 report that there were...
On the Blaze TV’s Stu Does America: To Discuss FBI Stealthy Crime Statistics Revisions
https://youtu.be/sMbDnU4rlcE Dr. John Lott appeared on Blaze Podcast Network’s Stu Does America to reveal shocking edits the FBI made to their crime statistics, raising concerns about media manipulation and truth in reporting. See also Dr. Lott's new...
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Michael Bloomberg’s The Trace Worried about Dr. John Lott Joining the Trump Administration
Who knows what the outcome of the election on November 5th will be, but gun control activists are already very worried about what it would mean for gun control. Gun control groups, such as Michael Bloomberg's The Trace, have jumped ahead and are concerned about the...
Fox News @Night With Trace Gallagher Mentions Our Research
https://youtu.be/Y5u892NSDCU Fox News @Night With Trace Gallagher discussed our Real Clear Investigation piece on the FBI and violent crime. Dr. Lott’s new investigative piece at Real Clear Investigations is here: “Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime...
U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee’s Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) investigating FBI over ‘quietly’ revised crime statistics
Our research has resulted in the House calling out the FBI for hiding its revision in crime statistics. The letter by Rep. James Comer is shown at the end. . Here is a story on the investigation that was in the Washington Times. A related story is available at Fox...