Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post. . Much of today’s deportation debate centers on the question of who should count as “criminals” to be immediately sent back to their home countries — with anti-deportation advocates ignoring the huge cost of delay. ....
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. . Whoever controls crime data can shape the political debate. The Trump administration has already reversed some of the changes the Biden administration made to federal crime and gun data, including information...
Stephen Dinan at the Washington Times has a news story on our newest report on errors in the FBI's active shooting reports. Our report is available here and the underlying list of cases can be found here. As usual, "The FBI didn’t respond to a request for comment for...
Democrats and open borders organizations such as the CATO Institute think that only illegal aliens who have been convicted of crime should be deported, and even many times they don't think that those individuals should be deported. The media often follows this lead...
Data: For convenience, the Excel file is available here, as well as a webpage with the list and links to the underlying news stories (see also here). We also show cases that the FBI missed of both armed and unarmed civilians stopping active shooting...
Take the case of Isaac Melendez-Carranza, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who was recently arrested for allegedly selling fentanyl to students at Park View High School in Loudoun County, Virginia. Investigators linked him to at least two student...
The CDC recently restored information on defensive gun use that it removed from its website in 2022 after gun-control advocates privately pressured agency officials to take it down. Until May 2022, the CDC cited a 2013 National Academies of Sciences (NAS)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPEVGNbhVQ Dr. John Lott on a wide range from a violent crime in Michigan to socialism to who are the people don't like the socialist views on reducing crime. A deep dive into murder victim data is available here and to violent crime...
olice and fire departments, growing calls among Democrats to “Abolish ICE,” calls by some Democrats to defund the police and abolish prisons, and illegal-immigrant crime. See also Dr. Lott's piece at The Federalist ("Data Shows Biden Made Communities Less Safe By...
The Crime Prevention Research Center has worked with the California Peace Officers Research Association and the California Association of Highway Patrolmen on an Amicus brief for the U.S. Supreme Court looking at “Whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee...
Cuando se publicó por primera vez en 1998, la obra de John R. Lott More Guns, Less Crime (MÁS ARMAS, MENOS CRIMEN) suscitó tanto grandes elogios como duras críticas. Más de una década después, con la aparición de su tercera edición, el libro sigue desempeñando un...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOke2EeIS8c Dr. John Lott was interviewed by the Federation for American Immigration Reform about his research on crime rates by illegal aliens. More detailed information can be found here and here. August 26, 2026