The Crime Prevention Research Center is proud to reveal new research that analyzes unique newly released data on crime rates by illegal aliens. Please download a copy: available here. The data as a STATA file is available here. See also the codebook and the "do...
On Monday, Dr. John Lott testified before the Virginia state Senate Courts of Justice Committee. He had been invited to testify by one of the committee members, state Senator Mark Peake. Dr. Lott was the first and primary witness to testify against SB 5, a bill...
Here is a very short clip of Hawaii Five-O trying to provide an example of a concealed handgun permit holder representing a danger to others. Other parts of the program show the permit holder as a real jerk and eventually stealing a gun from a police officer and...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper on the question of what type of immigrants we want to let into the US. The piece starts this way: Is it racist to say that you would prefer immigrants coming to the U.S. who are well-educated, skilled, and...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about claims that Dr. Lott is the one person who most angers the gun control community. (Tuesday, January 2, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
From an article at Fox News, December 6, 2017. You can see our research on this topic here and a long list of our publications here.
Congressmen Louie Gohmert gave a talk on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to discuss the false positive rate for NICS background checks. Out of 73,000 initial denials in 2010, there were only 42 cases referred for prosecution and just 13 convictions....
From the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California, which is located in Riverside County: It was the summer of 2016 when Steve Perkio, a retired construction worker with a love for the outdoors, walked into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department headquarters with his...
Mike Weisser has a new column in the Huffington Post: If there is one name which creates anger and hostility within the gun violence prevention (GVP) community, it’s not Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, it’s John Lott. His book, More Guns, Less...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about some of the new gun control laws that are going into effect around the country. (Tuesday, January 2, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:54 AM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about the federal legislation to have national reciprocity for concealed carry. (December 23, 2017)