This isn't too surprising to anyone who have been following our work. . . . Violent crime in Asheville increased 31% per 100,000 people between 2016 and 2020 – nearly double the national average and 18-percentage points higher than North Carolina's 13% increase...
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Martinez on his national radio show about COVID deaths and hospitalizations being overcounted, and our latest research that murders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concentrated in densely populated urban centers in a small set...
https://rumble.com/embed/v23ew4m/?pub=vzmga Dr. John Lott joins Steve Gruber to discuss the "overcounting" of COVID deaths and hospitalizations in the United States. Dr. Leana Wen admitted to the Washington Post: "The true toll of deaths and hospitalization, she...
“Does Biden talk to police to see why they do what they do? Biden doesn’t understand policing,” John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said Monday. “If he wants to increase retention, don’t immediately release criminals &...
Seattle, Washington, May 28, 2025 Near the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Seattle, a confrontation among several people escalated into gunfire, leaving two victims wounded. A bystander licensed to carry drew his firearm and fatally shot the 16-year-old shooter,...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on his national Armed American Radio show about his recent piece at Real Clear Politics on what is happening in Brazil, and our latest study on the concentration of murder in the United States. (Tuesday, January 17, 2023)
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. The piece also appeared at Zero Hedge. . After the three public shootings over the last two weekends in California, Democrats are again clamoring for even more gun control laws. To California Gov. Gavin...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y4V2IWss8sM Dr. John Lott appeared on TRT World to discuss the Monterey Park mass shooting, in which 11 people lost their lives, during the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration in California on Sunday, 22 January 2023. (TRT World Now,...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. . The per capita rate of mass shootings was much higher in California than in the rest of the U.S., despite the state having the strictest gun control laws in the country. . After Friday’s mass public shooting in Israel...
Nikki Goeser, the executive director of the Crime Prevention Research Center, talked to fill-in host Allen West on 660 AM The Answer in Dallas TX about her own experience as a victim of a deadly stalker and life-saving advice for stalking victims. See also...
Dr. John Lott appeared on The Steve Malzberg Show on TNT Radio about recent court decisions related to the Second Amendment and media reaction to them. They also discussed the recent three California mass shootings in three days. (Tuesday, January 24,...
The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler has a long discussion about our research on the FBI's Active Shooting cases. One benefit from Kessler's piece is that he was actually able to get the Texas State University people to respond to two of the cases that we provided. Dr....