Dr. John Lott talked to Andrew Wilkow on SiriusXM’s The Wilkow Majority about his new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal titled “The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It.”
(Monday, April 29, 2024, from 12:05 to 12:23 PM)
Are most people in prison there for crimes motivated by poverty? No, poverty explains just a few percent of the variation in crime rates, and relatively few crimes are related to poverty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldlsMfnlQq8 This interview on Fox News Sunday with the co-chair of the Democratic Socialist of America has the claim that most people in prison there for crimes motivated by poverty. Here are some facts: Roughly 58.2% of state prisoners...
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