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...
The newly released FBI data shows that reported violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) fell by 3.5% in 2023, but they have revised the 2022 data to show a 4.5% increase. However, it should be compared to the Bureau of Justice Statistics data,...
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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots will play a critical role in the upcoming elections as voters use AI to seek information on candidates and issues. Most recently, Amazon’s Alexa has come under scathing...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published at The New York Sun, The Blaze, Zero Hedge, The Gateway Pundit, The Ohio Star, The Tennessee Star, The Political Insider, Patriot Daily Press. The Highland County Press, Crime is a...
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. 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. 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...
https://rumble.com/v4yrlgr-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics-lawlessness-and-the-consequences-thereof-wi.html Dr. John Lott appeared on The Adult in the Room Podcast with Victoria Taft to discuss why the perception of crime simply doesn't line up with the federal...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about his new op-ed piece at the New York Post on the newly released 2023 FBI crime statistics. They also discussed the BJS's 2023 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data,...
https://youtu.be/Eaxrx1v-TOs Dr. John Lott appeared on NewsMax’s Wake Up America Weekend to discuss the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to secure the border. Kamala Harris failed as a "border czar" to protect American interests.
While the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of Likely U.S. Voters in the United States finds 51% want stricter gun control laws, 41% disagree. But the breakdown is interesting. Hispanics slightly oppose stricter gun control. Democrats overwhelmingly support stricter gun...
A clear majority of even Californians support making criminal penalties stiffer -- by two-to-one ratio. Even 47% of somewhat liberal people support stiffing the penalties. Nearly 58 percent of the 1,685 likely voters surveyed support Proposition 36, a November ballot...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDAzQzf0pU Here is part of Elon Musk's talk for President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5th, 2024. Musk talks about how private gun ownership protects the First Amendment. We focus on that part of his talk because of our...