The letter asks several questions to the FBI, such as if they omitted any data from various major cities, how many agencies provided incomplete data and if the data would be retroactively adjusted to reflect an increase in violent crime, like it had in...
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At the New York Post: First jobs, now crime: Biden’s FBI revises 2022 violence stats for the worse
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at New York Post. This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official...
Rasmussen Reports: 68% Back Proof of Citizenship for Voting, 73% Say It is Important to Prevent Illegal Immigrants from Voting, and 63% are Even Willing to Shutdown the Government to Get a Proof of Citizenship Law Passed.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey in September shows overwhelming support for requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in national elections. Indeed, only liberals oppose proof of citizenship. Even Democrats as a whole support it by a clear 56%-to-33%....
At Real Clear Politics: The New Data on Migrant Crime
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published in the Tennessee Star, NOQ Report, Real Clear Policy, and Off the Press. . The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking. . The U.S. Immigration...
FBI’s Measure of Murder shows that Murder Rate Increased by 11.23% from 2019 to 2023, an 11.63% Increase from 2018 to 2023. The Murder Rate is Still Much Higher than pre-COVID.
The murder rate in 2019 was 5.168 and 2023 in 5.748, an 11.23% increase. As noted before, the Centers for Disease Control showed an increase in ~murders (homicide, excluding legal intervention) from 2020 to 2022 while the FBI data shows a drop. The CDC data showed a...
At Tangle: Debate Over Whether Crime is Getting Better or Worse
Tangle conducted individual interviews with the left wing Brennan Center's Ames Grawert, The Manhattan Institutes' Robert VerBruggen, and CPRC's Dr. John Lott on the issue of whether crime is increasing. It would have been much more useful if everyone was in the same...
Under Kamala Harris’ Tenure as Border Czar, The Biden-Harris administration released into the U.S. 425,431 convicted criminals, 13,099 murderers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXOxBVpsk3k The Biden-Harris administration has released into the U.S. communities a significant number of noncitizens with serious criminal backgrounds, including 13,099 convicted of murder and 1,845 accused of murder, alongside...
At the Federalist: AI Chatbots Are Programmed To Spew Democrat Gun Control Narratives
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots will play a critical role in the upcoming elections as voters use AI to seek information on candidates and issues. Most recently, Amazon’s Alexa has come under scathing...
CPRC in the News: Washington Times, Newsweek, Red State, Akron Beacon Journal, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, and much more.
John Lott of the Crime Research Center points out that the government maintains two crime measures. The first is the Uniform Crime Reporting program, which is based on crimes reported to the police and forwarded to the FBI. How these reports are filed and reported was...
New U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Report Extensively Cites Dr. John Lott, “Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Victims of Violent Crime”
The complete copy of the report is available here. Here are some of the mentions of Dr. Lott research and testimony that were spread out throughout the report. The video of Lott's testimony before the commission is available here. Comments about the reaction of...
Another TV Character: “Wow, that is why I do not like guns.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlX9nwGBCnA This episode of Fox’s “The Finder” was released on February 2, 2012, and it has a standard line in so many television and movies where characters (in this case the main character, Walter Sherman, played by Geoff Stults) say...
Fox News Discusses Our Work: “Violent crimes have increased under Biden-Harris admin despite Dems’ denials: expert”
Fox News reporter Emma Colton interviewed Dr. John Lott for this news article. This article was also translated into Spanish via "Tripulante Mx," Polish, and Brazilian. . . . . "When David Muir goes and says the FBI shows that crime is down, that's not what the FBI is...