Ohio and Iowa have sued the Biden administration because the administration is refusing to let states verify whether registered voters are noncitizens. Even without access to this data, Ohio was able to identify some noncitizens who were registered to vote. But even...
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): 58,626 Illegal Aliens who were either Previously Convicted of Crimes or had Criminal Charges Pending are Living in New York City. That is 7% of 759,218 Illegal Aliens Living in NYC.
Our work at Real Clear Investigations pointed out that in September, ICE reported that of 7.4 million such “non-detained” noncitizens released into the U.S. during the last four decades or so were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories – 435,719 individuals with...
On the Bill Cunningham Radio Show: To Discuss Illegal Aliens Committing Crimes and the Truth about the Crime Explosion
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Cunningham on his national Sunday radio to discuss how Donald Trump has changed the political landscape. See also Dr. Lott's new piece at Real Clear Investigations ("Estimated Victimization Cost of Crime by Illegal Aliens is at least...
In Newspapers Across Montana: Gun-free zones attract attackers
This piece appeared in the Billings Gazette and also in Helena Independent Record, Missoulian, Montana Standard, and the Ravioli Republic, all are in Montana, . . Around midmorning on Thursday, parents across Montana started receiving texts from their children that...
CRPC in the News: Fox News, Red State, Colorado Politics, Encyclopedia Britannica, Issues & Insights, Delaware Valley Journal (Pennsylvania), and more
This video has been posted repeatedly on the Fox News website, including here on November 9th, though this time it was on the Spanish version of Fox News. Here is the English version of the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbeNHT99PM FBI actualización de los...
Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States: 2024
A copy of our newest report is available here (please download). Copies of our annual reports from 2014 through 2022 are available here. Abstract After a spike in 2022, the number of Concealed Carry Permit holders across the United States fell for a second consecutive...
Washington Examiner: Illegal migrant crime cost $166.5 billion, three times the price of deportation
Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner had this discussion on our recent piece at Real Clear Investigations. . The cost of crime from 662,000 criminal illegal migrants sought for deportation has been pegged at three times the much-hyped price of President-elect Donald...
CRPC in the News: New York Post, Fox News, Associated Press, Real Clear Politics, and PJ Media
The Crime Prevention Research Center first flagged the FBI’s quiet adjustment in a story that was published by RealClearInvestigations. Jordan and Biggs are demanding all documentation and communication related to the “FBI’s process for updating” the data as...
$166.5 Billion, A Very Conservative Estimate of Criminal Victimization Costs from Criminal Illegal Aliens Released into the U.S., Assuming They Commit Just One Similar Crime in the U.S. to the Most Serious Crime They Committed in Their Home Country
We will shortly be releasing a Real Clear Investigations analysis based on estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) suggests that crime by illegal aliens who entered the U.S. by July 21, 2024, cost the country some...
Survey: Are States Doing Enough to Stop Illegal Immigrants from Voting?
A recent national survey by Rasmussen Reports conducted in August reveals that 32% of likely U.S. voters believe that election officials in their state have either done nothing to prevent illegal immigrants from voting or have not addressed the issue at all....
New Publication at the International Review of Law & Economics: Estimating the effect of concealed carry laws on murder and other violent crimes
Our new research paper is available to read here. Abstract In 2021 we wrote a short paper noting that truncating the sample when estimating the effect of right to carry laws on crime could be biased by comparisons to states that already adopted the law, instead of...
Gallup: Gun Ownership Rates Have Spiked by 14 Percentage Points Among Republican Women, 5 Points Among All Women
According to Gallup's Nov. 21 report, gun ownership among U.S. adults remains near 30% overall, but the ownership rate among Republican women rose from 19% in 2007-2012 to 33% in 2019-2024. Among Republican men it rose slightly from 57% in 2007-2012 to 60% in...