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On WAVA FM’s The Drive Home Show: To Discuss New FBI Reported Crime Data

Oct 11, 2024 | Radio

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Dr. John Lott talked to Greg Seltz on WAVA’s The Drive Home Show about the newly released 2023 FBI crime data and its revision of 2022 data. See also Dr. Lott’s new op-ed at the New York Post titled “First jobs, now crime: Biden’s FBI revises 2022 violence stats for the worse.”

(Thursday, October 3, 2024, from 4:20 PM to 4:30 PM ET)

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