Dr. John Lott and his wife Laura have a piece up at Real clear Politics on today's oral arguments before the Supreme Court. . Are regular marijuana users the modern equivalent of “habitual drunkards” at the Founding? What about someone who regularly takes a sleep...
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Worth listening to:”Salon” style dinner-inclusive event at a private home in Sydney, Australia to discuss crime and gun control laws
On Sunday, February 8th, 2026, Dr. John Lott gave a presentation to a dinner event to about 30 people at the private home in Sydney, Australia. They covered an extensive range of issues regarding crime and gun control laws. Part 1 Part 2
Three Alabama women indicted on Absentee Vote Fraud, Last Fall there was another Absentee Vote Fraud Case
The investigation for this first case began when Monroe County election officials (Pennsylvania) — specifically at the county’s Voter Registration and Election Office — identified suspicious voter registration and mail-in ballot application formsduring routine...
Talk at the University of Houston: The Role of Economics in Understanding Law
Here is part of a talk that Dr. John Lott gave on February 26th, 2026 at the University of Houston that explained how useful economics is in understanding law. The audio is provided above and the PowerPoint that went with the talk is provided below. There ended up...
At The Federalist: The Real Rate Of Transgender Violence Is Much Worse Than The Media Wants To Admit
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist on the shooting crimes by transgender individuals. This piece was the top trending piece at The Federalist. . We’re repeatedly told that transgender individuals are “not prone to commit gun violence.” Major...
Data Breach in Canada Revealed the identities of 2.2 million gun owners: One of the dangers of a gun registration system
The Investigative Journalism Foundation has discovered that a 2021 data breach that exposed the names of 2.2 million gun owners. . A hack linked to the Canadian program overseeing firearm licences and registration was the largest data breach reported by a federal...
CPRC in the News: New York Daily News, Fox News, Epoch Times, Daily Record, PJ Media, and More
"You go 13 days without a homicide occurring, those homicides would have invariably been very heavily Black," John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "And so those lives, you have Blacks who didn't...
Talk to an Election Integrity Event in DC
General Michael Flynn organized a talk that I gave on voting rules in other countries and some academic research that I have done on voting. The PowerPoint below will help you follow along with the talk. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here. Vote Fraud Mail-in...
Transgender Shooters Commit Disproportionate Shares of Mass Public and Active Shooting Attacks—In 2024, for active shooters, at Least 12 Times Their Share of the Population
A widely cited February 2024 report by Politifact claimed: "No evidence of rising LGBTQ+ violent extremism or 'trans terrorism." A follow up report by Politifact in September 2025 examined both the FBI's definition of active shooting attacks and the notion of mass...
Americans are very concerned about violent crime, think that it is getting worse, don’t think deporting illegal alien criminals helps, and trust Republicans more than Democrats to reduce crime
Because Democrats are reluctant to catch and punish criminals, it is no surprise that a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds Americans trust Republicans more on crime—though the 5-percentage-point gap remains modest. Even as murder rates fell last year to historic...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, The New York Sun, The Daily Signal, Townhall, World Net Daily, and more
In 2025, ICE arrested and deported approximately 600,000 illegal immigrants — most of whom, as former Department of Justice official and scholar John Lott has pointed out, were detained with administrative warrants issued by immigration judges under DOJ or the...
John Ruddick, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, gives a Speech citing Dr. John Lott’s Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNhVkoNb820 John Ruddick is an Australian politician, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. After Dr. John Lott's presentation to members the previous night, Ruddick recounted Lott's discussion on the floor of the...












